The less oil the world uses, the less important the region that has so much of it becomes.

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.

Mindfulness is essential in our path toward personal growth. We cannot cannot change what we are not aware of.

I walked when I should have runI ran when I should have walkedAnd don't I know it, don't I know it

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

Harden our hearts. To the innocents in the womb and we have hardened our hearts. To the need for compassion and mercy and. Fellow feeling. And charity. And decency in this world.

I don't want to stop bringing out music.

A whole new generation is looking at the videos, and going to the video shop and buying the re-release of the complete trilogy, which you can buy at a reasonable price.

Man has slapped nature in the face. If you slap it, it will slap you back.

It's impossible to make everyone happy. Some will choose to see the negative. None is perfect but find a way of loving them perfectly!

Allyson Smith reminds me of a younger, prettier, funnier me. Now if you'll excuse me, the ladies from my bridge club have arrived.

I called to buy some meth, but I threw it away.