Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.

But here's what I've learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.

You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.

[Indira Gandhi] answered cautiously at first. Then she opened up like a flower and the conversation flowed along without obstacles, in mutual sympathy.

No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.

Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.