The real threat to world stability is not too much American power. It is too little American power.

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.

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.

We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.

Personally, I like to sleep. And I intend to appropriately confine myself more and more to my living quarters and pass my life away sleeping.

For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.

In humility, we find our true calling and our greatest honor.

Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.

Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.

The cry of a young raven is nothing but the natural cry of a creature, but your cry, if it be sincere, is the result of a work of grace in your heart.

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

The inspiration of a noble cause enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before

I made a conscious decision to live my life the best way I could and that meant to publicise myself as little as possible.