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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.

A Chinese Christian prayed every day .... "Lord reform Thy world beginning with me."

God is a rich and bountiful Father and He does not forget His children nor withhold from them anything which it would be to their advantage to receive.

The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.

While I may not agree with all of President Obama's energy policies, I strongly supported his successful effort to double fuel economy standards for cars and trucks to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.

You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!

To love someone is to catch your breath whenever he walks in the room.

It's creating things that make enough money to create resources to generate new technologies to have those technologies to generate more resources so I can make more things happen.

If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles.

We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.