After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.

While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.

The government can give citizens opportunity and it's their responsibility to take advantage of it.

One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.

The real threat to world stability is not too much American power. It is too little American power.

All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.

The world needs a strong America.

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.

We humble ourselves under the mighty grace of the Creator. He will deliver us from every chain and oppression.

If we preach God, it means we preach light. Consequently we preach freedom from ignorance.

Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.

HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.

When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.

I draw like other people bite their nails.

As long as you're growing in your profession and you're respected, you're going to stay as clean as you can, because you've got something that you love that you don't want to lose.

I would love to have a race against Usain Bolt one day! It would certainly be a good challenge for me.

All creative effort - including the making of an omelet - is preceded by destruction.