The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary.

That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.

By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.

What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.