The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.

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.

A good motto to live by: 'Always try not to get killed.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

I think family dynamics are definitely very interesting. And in my case my sister did get married. She gave my parents a grandchild.

I wish everybody was just ethnically ambiguous. It would make life a lot easier.

Leadership is meant merely to be lead-by-example.Anything given extra to support team result is just an icing on the top.

The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.

The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.

I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in the duty of its love.

All agreed that Quickset was the cleverest cat in the world. And, since Quickset had the same opinion, it was surely true.

A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense.