If you can get out in front of people with your ideas and your execution, you'll attract the people who need to be pulled in.

Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization.

You cant drag people from understanding to action. A customer isnt actually at the last mile if youre the one dragging her to the finish line.

Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.

Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods.

Run with what works: Sell to the people who believe in you and are willing to take the chances and make the experience happen.

The Marines are like my West Highland Terrier. They get up every morning, they want to dig a hole, and they want to kill something.

So long as the global economy continues to recover, that remains Obama's No. 1 claim to successful leadership. Nothing else even comes close.

Piece makes Peace, Pain makes Paint, A Word create World. "The One person can change you, Maybe ubiquitous r inconspicuous.

It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine.

Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.

Most of my influences are from the past.

All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded.

most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.

He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.

Infinite patience gets you immediate results.

To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State.

There's a Welsh poet, R.S. Thomas. He was a very crotchety, strange man, but his poems are wonderful. He was nominated for the Nobel in the 1990s but never won.