Imagine if the United States, in its war against Hitler, had said to Stalin: we don't want your support until you make your country democratic.

This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.

The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.

It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.

In dictatorships you need courage to fight evil; in the free world you need courage to see evil.

Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.

It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia.

Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.

As soon as people become a little less fearful, they will also begin demanding more freedom.

Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.

Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.

There is more to life than working for money.

I don't think you will crawl when you have legs to walk. I don't think you will walk when you have wings to fly.

I did not want to be taken for a fool – the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.

Despair is a wholly selfish response to fortune’s slings and arrows.

Some poeple just don't have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.

A fool I am and I'll always be. They can change their minds, but they can't change me.

You know, my mother never thought I would do anything good in my life, and I was standing in this opera with four gold medals! If she were alive, maybe she'd think I was doing well!

Thus far, everything I've made has come out of my really feeling it, out of the fire of my life.

An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation.