We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States.

We have seen enough of war to know that it doesn't work to resolve conflicts. It only exacerbates them. It is time we find other solutions and dedicate ourselves to life-not death.

People think in narrow, constrained, constipated ways about the world. They can't imagine that the world could be different. Not like the dreamers who actually see a different world, a better world.

A big part of the story is American imperialism, and the flip side of that is the building up of the national security state here at home.

History is a matter of interpretation, but you have to start with certain facts.

People [in US] are starting to rethink this idea of empire, this idea of the United States being this superpower, the hegemon, is not working, and we can't afford it anymore.

China is doing a lot of things right that the United States is doing wrong.

Curiosity is the engine of achievement.

Be like the moon—reflect lights of love from within.

Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak.

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

Age doesn't make a difference either. Whether you're 20 or 70, you can still play together. There are so many different things you can do with golf that you can't do in other sports.

The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.

A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it round in a futile wild-goose chase for imaginary ideals.

Sometimes people have said that Islam, in its own calendar, is still only in the Middle Ages.