All war aims for impunity.

A liberal society cannot be defended by herbivores. We need carnivores to save us, but we had better make sure the meat-eaters hunt only on our orders.

Well, I'm an absolute fan of lacy lingerie. I want to make that perfectly clear.

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.

Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.

Many roads to take some to joy some to heart ache

Happiness is a state of mind, not the condition we find.

Remember, nothing happens before it’s supposed to, so trust that, as you are striving for authenticity and personal excellence, the recognition of your life’s purpose is nearing closer.

I would like to continue making music and acting in projects that give me a lot of satisfaction.

The balance of trade is an article of faith.

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

If you put your cameras down you might be able to live in the moment. You have a memory there of something you've never lived.

One of the things about powerful people is they have the ability to make it look easy.

I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.