Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.

You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere.

I like the life of ideas and applying ideas to action.

If they are too big to fail, make them smaller.

Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may let the prisoner go free on procedural grounds.

Obama seems to want to do something to damage rich people.

Before you get mugged by reality, take out an insurance policy. It's the Reagan way.

If somebody had made that [deal] to me when I was a businessman, I would have said he proposed to give me the sleeves from his vest.

There is no prospect that the United States will say to Israel, 'You do such and such and we'll not support you in your security.

The problem with spiritual procrastination is the uncertain time of the deadline.

I'm still going to do television. I'm just not going to do morning television. I would like to do some things that satisfy interests, private interests.

A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.

Most novels, if they are successful at all, are original in the sense that they report the existence of an area of society, a type of person, not yet admitted to the general literate consciousness.

As I discovered, there is a great deal of similarity between a boom-bust process in the financial markets and the rise and fall of the Soviet system.

Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.

To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune!

We determine our Destination by our priorities.

People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself.

I think so much about everything. I'm obsessive.