American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

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.

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.

Brandon tilted his head back and closed his eyes. Unbelievable. He had his name. God had given it. Just like Reece said he would.

Bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

Patience is a key element of success.

The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments . There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience.

Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.

I didn't play a great deal of sport in primary school. It was not until I went away to boarding school in Sussex that I really got into sport.

To change the way you see things is already to change things themselves.

I feel as though I've proved myself these last five years that I can be one of the top players in the league.

I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.