We hope relevant countries will work together in the same direction to build the South China Sea into a sea of peace, friendship and co-operation.

Effective immediately, transgender Americans may serve openly, and they can no longer be discharged or otherwise separated from the military just for being transgender.

In strategic affairs, clarity and consistency are very important.

I think it's part of Vladimir Putin's nature to define Russian success in foreign policy as thwarting the United States. That's in his nature. And that is very difficult to align with strategically.

Whomsoever I love and hate, my principle is the same. That is, the educated, the rich and the administrators should not suck the blood of the poor.

There is nothing you cannot turn into your favor.

He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think.

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene

The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

Like when you go to a magic show and you know how they do the illusions. That's how I am when I watch any movies where they have people flying through the air.

I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me

If Instagram had been available when I was working in Nicaragua in 1978, I'm sure I would have wanted to use it as a way of reporting directly from the streets during the insurrection.