China, in short has the potential to be considerably more powerful than even the United States.

In the anarchic world of international politics, it is better to be Godzilla than Bambi.

States care about relative wealth, because economic might is the foundation of military might.

The sad fact is that international politics has always been a ruthless and dangerous business, and it is likely to remain that way.

Simply put, the most powerful state is the one that prevails in a dispute.

A state's potential power is based on the size of its population and the level of its wealth.

Offensive realism predicts that the United States will send its army across the Atlantic when there is a potential hegemon in Europe that the local great powers cannot contain by themselves.

Decapitation is a fanciful strategy.

States have two kinds of power: latent power and military power.

Bandwagoning is a strategy for the weak.

Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity.

You can be inspired by others, but when you're inspired from within then you have real power for change.

The five senses offer us five different ways of shutting out reality. What is intuition and what does it perceive?

I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

Some nights I knew that if I slept I would die.

I want to go down in history.

There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.

When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence,' he finally told me.

People like the comedy more when they care about the characters.

And yet today, half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by policies of slavery

Success makes us intolerant of failure and failure makes us intolerant of success.