If I were a woman I should march out with a flaming torch and a sword

Associate Yourself with People Who Think Positively: Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes.

I have a shield. It's the most amazing shield ever. I don't see them. I don't feel them. If anything, "Hey come over, let me touch you so I can heal you." You get what I'm saying?

Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.

I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

The stress of grad school can drive anyone temporarily mad.

Confine yourself to the present.

The difficulty is that we try to perfect others before we perfect ourselves.

A man with deep far-sightedness will survey both the beginning and the end of a situation and continually consider its every facet as important.

The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.