The driving motivation of a new American endeavor in Iraq and in neighboring Arab lands should be modernizing the Arab world.

It is easier to define whether or not you can afford something than whether you need it in the first place.

But you know what they say - old milk turns sour but old scores just get sweeter.

Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.

Your name still rings a bell when you say something good, not by causing catastrophe in a bid to sound more interesting.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it.

Always be classy. Never be crazy.

A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.

Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.