Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.

It is not far-fetched to draw a line from Operation Ajax through the Shah's repressive regime and the Islamic Revolution to the fireballs that engulfed the World Trade Center in New York.

Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests.

New media and mobile entertainment are revolutionizing the way people learn about the world.

Afghanistan's borders are arbitrary, drawn to meet 19th-century political needs rather than to respect ethnic or religious patterns.

No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control.

Allowing a friend to careen toward self destruction is not friendship. That is a habit the United States needs to break as it pursues a richer and more deeply supportive relationship with Israel.

'Operation Ajax' presents history in an entirely new way. It takes a true story and uses cutting-edge technology, never before used in this way, to bring it to spectacular life.

I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

Not unlike the toaster, I control darkness.

In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others

I know how to smile, I know how to laugh, I know how to play. But I know how to do these things only after I have fulfilled my mission.

Women at my age they are making love, they are feeling sensual, they flirt, they have boyfriends, they have a sexual life. They are just not being represented in the movies.

Murder is such a charged word. You know how some people fixate and won't let things go? They're called cops.

Be as just and gracious unto me, As I am confident and kind to thee.