They were numerically outnumbered.

The air had a cool crispness to it and the leaves on the trees had begun turning yellow and red.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

Night is the wonderful opportunity to take rest, to forgive, to smile, to get ready for all the battles that you have to fight tomorrow.

The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation.

In order for us to solve many big problems around the world, it is in our interest to work with Russia and obtain their cooperation.

If you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to make it happen.

Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book.

If you are going to try to go to war, or to prepare for war, in a capitalist country, you have got to let business make money out of the process or business won't work.

Power rises to the top like cream and dominates the weak with cruelty disguised as -- and often even believed to be -- benevolence.

You can't be everything to everybody, but you can be everything to somebody. Don't lose the ones you love trying to please the world