Foreign policy is a little bit like a guy who goes to Las Vegas. If you win too much, then you eventually bet the mortgage. You start to think you are infallible.

Fears don't exist in isolation. They tend to rise and fall depending on what people think they can do about them.

I think the most inspiring thing that Americans can do for the rest of the world is struggle against the evils in our own society.

The top line is that hubris is a disease that comes from success.

I've heard people in the Middle East tell me that the most inspiring thing for them as people struggling against dictatorship in the Middle East is the memory of the civil rights movement.

There are real threats but there's a difference between recognizing real threats and an irrational kind of apocalyptic threat.

I hope Barack Obama puts another woman on the Supreme Court. And this time, I hope it's a woman with kids.

I am not an ornithologist—I am a bird.

You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist [....] I find that it obviates the necessity for any cognitive dissonance.

It is critical to learn how to listen for what is not being said.

Salvation brings the soul a deep awareness of God's love. Life takes on more meaning, for it now has a purpose.

The house shakes...with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.

The way I look at it, I'm a guy who acts to live.

A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.

The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.

Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft.

You just got to be #patient, be focused, you know there are lots of distractions out there.