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

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.

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.

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

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.

Now is the perfect time to start making those changes you know you need to make.

A gifted person who is born in the world can unleash distinctive qualities about him or herself if he or she is confident enough to reveal his or her own strengths towards everyone.

Truth needs wisdom's guidance. Wisdom prevents a hard truth from getting the best of you when an imperfect character brings out the worst in you.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

Angels and demons were identical--interchangeable archetypes--all a matter of polarity. The guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer.

I'll transform anything as long as it's edible.

My belief is that the music is always stronger than the performer: there is always something new, something we learn, whether at a performance or during a rehearsal.

It is not big armies that win battles, it is the good ones.

Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family.