Don't sugar-coat results. Don't make yourself look good when your strategy fails. Don't make others look good if their strategy failed.

It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly.

Keep your analysis pure and virtuous.

Burning Woman is a powerful image. A role model. A metaphor. A warning. A source of power. She is Feminine power incarnate.

Service to others is the rent you pay for living on this planet.

Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state.

Connection gives purpose and meaning to our lives.

Enhancing long term national security requires that we have a clear-eyed view of radical Islamic terrorism without ascribing radical Islamic terrorist views to all Muslims.

The jests of the rich are ever successful.

To be great, you must be misunderstood

I think there's just too much greed in the world today [and] that's why we have problems.

The heart is the path to wisdom because it dares to be vulnerable in the presence of power

Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that.