The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will.

When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails.

Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U.S. forces find - and there will be plenty.

Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.

When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways.

It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong.

I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.

If a caterpillar doesn't know its future has wings, it hardly experiences itself as land-bound.

Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role.

Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less.

I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.

What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls?

When you come to a fork in the road, be still, and see with your mind's eye. There you find the clarity you seek.

Im quite competitive. Not with other models but with myself. I have to win.

I love women that have an ease to the way they dress. I think Vanessa Paradis and Alexa Chung do that very well.

If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

We're not choosing the art, the art is choosing us. The pieces are choosing the walls where they hang.

And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.

Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?

I am inspired by seeing kindness in others. It touches me and reminds me to be kind as well.

Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.