The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.

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.

Happiness is being emerged in thoughts of you.

Death is not the end of one's life rather than the beginning of another ( bad or nice) life.

The only way to neutralize the effect of public journals is to multiply them indefinitely.

Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God and so there's no room left for worry thoughts.

The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.

When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.

Ruthless. That’s my girl.

I've had people come up to me in the past and say they enjoyed whatever show I've been in.

I’m not going to bed after all. Somebody around here hath murdered sleep. Good for him.

Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.