The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.

People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.

While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.

After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

The government can give citizens opportunity and it's their responsibility to take advantage of it.

One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.

The real threat to world stability is not too much American power. It is too little American power.

All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.

The world needs a strong America.

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

You would rather opt for death than give up. Because, what a way to live a mediocre life by choice?

In Cuba we had the most ferocious form of capitalism for 60 years. It dominated every sphere of life.

The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.

I certainly hope 'Dragon' can leave some legacy behind.

The reality, certainly in my life, is that we all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed by it.

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and obtain a lush lifestyle makes a certain (albeit seedy) sense.

I'm not the most attractive fella. I'm not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

Do what's right and you'll please some of the people and astound the rest.

Fine conduct is always spontaneous.