Keep shining, the world needs your light.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

The rise of China will inevitably lead to conflict with the United States, as it challenges the existing balance of power.

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.