Russians understand strength, and if they feel that their opponents are weak, they will take advantage of it.

When you're smaller and leaner, you're not going to have that large a presence throughout the world.

Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.

Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.

One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels.

The potential for the next Pearl Harbor could very well be a cyber-attack.

The White House was so eager to rid itself of Iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve our influence and interests.

The United States has to be a leader in the world, because the problem is: If we are not leading, nobody else will.

Faith had always told herself that she was not like other ladies. But neither, it seemed, were other ladies.

My mediocrity is no secret

I wanted us to share all our lives. You wish to keep me in a box, separate from your life. I cannot be someone you come to when you have nothing more important to do.

Truly visionary and successful companies have discovered that there is no conflict between the pursuit of profit and having a pursuit beyond profit.

The question for us is not what new story will come out next. The question is, what are we going to do about it?

The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.

How we spend our time verifies what we value most: TV, the Internet, or God's Word?

I paint a little and keep sketchbooks because it has the effect of preventing me becoming lazy about looking. The subject could be anything.

I wanted to be a citizen of the world but not in a superficial way.

Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Don't argue or answer rationally. Let us die, and dying, reply.