Isaiah berlin

Churchill for all his love of the present hour, his unquenchable appetite for new knowledge, his sense of the technological possibilities of our time, and the restless roaming of his fancy in considering how they might be most imaginatively applied, despite his enthusiasm for Basic English, or the siren suit which so upset his hosts in Moscow - despite all this, Churchill remains a European of the nineteenth century.

It sounds corny, but we're a family, and that's just the way it is. Everything you see is true, and everyone in that locker room gets along with everyone else.

[Speaking in Berlin at a women's conference called] Courage to take Power, ... It is interesting that a woman who has seven children has too many and another who does not have any does not have enough.

Most of my family is here - my mother and brother are the only ones still in Charlotte. When I was a little kid, I used to dream about playing in the Garden. Every kid in New York dreams about that. I saw a game there once when I was real young, but I don't remember it.

The Berlin Wall crumbled, Politburos resigned and governments vanished overnight. Half a million Czechs and Slovaks gathered ... in Prague and we sensed that a long, absent angel had returned home to Central Europe,