I think his [Reagan's] policy toward the Soviet Union was more risky than most people realize, and it was risky because of the paranoia and fear among the isolated old guard in Moscow.

Presidents make history but are also a product of it. And there are two kinds: transforming and transactional. Reagan was a transforming president. He made history.

I see in [George H. W.] Bush a striving to be Reagan-like in the sense of having a big vision, and eschewing small details.

Today, we've got what seems to me to be binary-choice politics: black and white, ones and zeros, either you are with me or against me. How did we get here?

He [Reagan] was who he was, and it was not complicated. You didn't get a different person in an interview.

I think words were Reagan's greatest weapon - and more powerful than the Strategic Defense Initiative, which did not come to fruition in his lifetime.

And I said, 'Do I have leprosy?' And they said, 'You are a dangerous element.

We evaluate, measure, and describe this world from our own point of view, but how does a tree see the world?

Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.

Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.

Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.

The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant.

It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.

No man ought to commit his life into the hands of that Physician, who is ignorant of Astrologic: because he is a Physician of no value.

It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.

If you're a hater we make you scared to show your face. It's called success.

As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.