Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are forced to do so by political level authority.

As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.

The controlled chaos is one way to get creativity. The intensity of it, the physical rush, the intimacy created the kind of dialogue that leads to synergy...

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.

Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.

World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.

A world without the United Nations or with a paralyzed United Nations would be far more costly to all of us and far more dangerous to peace and stability.

It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear.

Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings.

I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just mean military, persevering against any challenge. I still believe in that.

Nature! I think it my duty to serve its beauty.

Indeed, God is always with us even when things look hopeless.

Fine. If you insist.I'll try Just.One.Nibble. But--I won't enjoy it.

I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it.

To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.

It is easy to conquer the world from the back of a horse.

Since China has a population of 1.1 billion, it won't feel lonely even if it becomes the only socialist country.

Every heart desires a mate.

I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.

If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.