The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly at all.

In the anarchic world of international politics, it is better to be Godzilla than Bambi.

States care about relative wealth, because economic might is the foundation of military might.

The sad fact is that international politics has always been a ruthless and dangerous business, and it is likely to remain that way.

Simply put, the most powerful state is the one that prevails in a dispute.

A state's potential power is based on the size of its population and the level of its wealth.

Offensive realism predicts that the United States will send its army across the Atlantic when there is a potential hegemon in Europe that the local great powers cannot contain by themselves.

Decapitation is a fanciful strategy.

China, in short has the potential to be considerably more powerful than even the United States.

States have two kinds of power: latent power and military power.

Bandwagoning is a strategy for the weak.

Sometimes you just have those days where everything goes wrong. But sometimes, and totally unexpectedly, something can go right.

Your persistent deep driving desires and your intentional actions will become your reality.

Have ye ever known a female who wasna a bit of a witch in her own sweet way?

there are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed

If you want something done right get someone else to do it.

I think that most of the women when they dress in the morning, they try to be someone elseToday there is too much retouching, and I don't like it...except on me.

Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.

I've been thinking so much about writing as a gift to readers - and how newness of subject (place or topic or person) is one of the biggest gifts at our disposal.

Life has to end, love doesn't.

I'm not anxious to starve myself. For me, it's not at all sexy to be ultra-thin.