Allowing a friend to careen toward self destruction is not friendship. That is a habit the United States needs to break as it pursues a richer and more deeply supportive relationship with Israel.

It is not far-fetched to draw a line from Operation Ajax through the Shah's repressive regime and the Islamic Revolution to the fireballs that engulfed the World Trade Center in New York.

Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests.

New media and mobile entertainment are revolutionizing the way people learn about the world.

Afghanistan's borders are arbitrary, drawn to meet 19th-century political needs rather than to respect ethnic or religious patterns.

No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control.

'Operation Ajax' presents history in an entirely new way. It takes a true story and uses cutting-edge technology, never before used in this way, to bring it to spectacular life.

Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.

The effectiveness of your life is not determined by the duration of your life

The most important thing you wear is your personality.

My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.

We are transmuting the reality of our perceptual field. There are endless, beautiful and perfect universes - or you can go beyond universes to the dissolution, where there's no beginning.

In the '80s and '90s we started to have economic problems because society became more conservative. So we didn't have the wherewithal for expanding to other areas.

I was the first athlete, from a training standpoint, with Adidas to have their own signature shoe.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . .

Journalists are interesting. They just aren't as interesting as the things they cover.

Anger was both a disfiguring and a revealing passion.

I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.