If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.

Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.

Today, the Muslim world is the poorest of the global powers.

Our nation is today a powerful nation.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.

If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today.

Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough.

Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?

That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.