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

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.

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.

The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.

With a burning ambition, sustained focus, and daily action - there simply are no limits to what you will achieve.

To ask how I feel about writing is to ask how I feel about breathing.

Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.

There are days where I turn on the TV or I look at the news and I'm like, "I want to go to Mars. This is insane." But I can't go to Mars! I need to face reality and just to have some hope.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.

When we erase perception, then we erase that which perceives perception. The universe dissolves and we see that it was never real to begin with.

What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need.

Its impossible to go onto the Tardis set and not play with things and fiddle with dials.

... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.

The real bubble in China is in US Treasuries, in US dollars.