The warrior must continue to make decisions in the face of extreme circumstances. He cannot afford to get angry or frightened.

Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest - sometimes with extensive borrowing - when and where matters of life and death are at stake.

Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.

I think there are worse things than war. For example, injustice.

Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demographics, technology, and culture.

What is American strategy first of all? So American strategy is to command the seas, right? The foundation of our power is sea control. Nobody can invade us, but we can invade them.

Well the most likely emerging countries are Japan, Turkey, and Poland. So I would say Eastern Europe, the Middle East and a maritime war by Japan with the United States enjoying its own pleasures.

A century is about events. A decade is about people.

Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.

The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war.

The poets think about war more than the social scientists.

We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.

When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.

I'm positive and I smile a lot, and I'm kind of a banana, but serious work just seems to find me, so I'm not going to argue with it.

Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education.

The heart of man is, so to speak, the paradise of God.

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.

The going is the goal.

Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard.

You know what's the sexiest thing of all? A little mystery.

Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.