If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.

While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.

After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

The government can give citizens opportunity and it's their responsibility to take advantage of it.

One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.

The real threat to world stability is not too much American power. It is too little American power.

All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.

The world needs a strong America.

The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

How passionate have you embrace life?

When you look for beauty, you usually end up finding it.From Central Park Song (A Screenplay)

The world goes up and the world goes down And the sunshine follows the rain And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown Can never come over again.

To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.

Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.

To consider the degree of concord which ultimately prevailed as less than a miracle.

It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.

If people are looking for someone who has never changed their mind and is unwilling to admit they make mistakes, that's not me.

I thought about Emmett Till, and I could not go back. My legs and feet were not hurting, that is a stereotype. I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.