The Olympic Gold medal in 1968 was definitely the highest moment of my career. It was a dream come true. I was a 19-year-old boy, and it was just amazing to be standing on top of the podium and hearing the National Anthem in the background.
China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor.
1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves.
The best way to filter out the bad seeds was to place a job ad for Prime Minister in a national newspaper and all those that applied would be automatically disqualified.
The longer a nation's history, the more wars, invasions, wanderings, and periods of captivity it has seen-the greater the diversity of its faces.
Friendship knows no color, nationality, race and social level, friendship knows no age and gender, friendship knows no distance.
If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.
Those who lived in peaceful nations had looked the other way as members of their own species starved on their door step.
The story of a man's soul, however trivial, can be more interesting and instructive than the story of a whole nation
Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us.
If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
I am not going to believe in militant nationalism, which cultivates a culture of intolerance, Can't we think of a solution without violence.
Life is too damn short to not tell someone how you feel. Don't let someone because you're afraid or you'll lose them forever.
Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer softly leaving the scene of the crime.
We’ve become a nation of defaulters: we buy on credit, and when the bill comes in, we’re so deeply outraged that we refuse even to look at it.
The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.
The bedrock of corruption is the attitude of selfishness. Nations are ruined when politicians think for themselves first before thinking about anyone else!
The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.
Jews have been the most successful and productive nation in history.
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.
