There aren't many people who really put their life on the line for human freedom.

The law of unintended consequences is the only real law of history.

The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.

As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.

The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos.

To make a living space, there first had to be a killing space.

All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies wholly on coercion can't endure. It's too expensive.

The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.

I can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations.

If young men have jobs - or the prospects of jobs - they are less likely to take up arms, they are less likely to join the resistance.

Audience can live without a movie but a movie cannot live without an audience.

World is full of people waiting to pursue their passion, if given a chance. Unfortunately, the "chance" will not be given, it needs to be earned.

My Greatest Failures has been My Greatest Success~

No man deserves a woman like that. He mortgages his very soul to win her and spends his life paying off the debt.

The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

In reality, our mind is the creator of all the things we experience.

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

Anybody can make 'good' music. I make terrible music, which is what makes it so different, and therefore better.

It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.