When I went to war, I did not go making geopolitical calculations. I went to war with a lust.

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.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

To realize the truth, you have to cross the boundaries of all religions and prophets.

My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet…is that they all realize their worth and ask for it.

On the other hand, pot opens windows and doors that you may not be able to get through any other way.

Don't allow your emotions to get in the way of clearheaded decisions about what's best for you.

Never believe a man's claim that he has to harm his partner in order to protect her; only abusers think this way.

I've only ever seen Errol Christie fight once before and that was the best I've ever seen him fight.

Other people's deconstruction of your motivations doesn't help you do what you do. You can't swallow and think about swallowing at the same time.

Ask yourself: would you be comfortable printing everything your employees, customers & partners have to say about your culture?