When World War II started on September 1, 1939, the German army contained 3.74 million soldiers and 103 divisions.

In the anarchic world of international politics, it is better to be Godzilla than Bambi.

States care about relative wealth, because economic might is the foundation of military might.

The sad fact is that international politics has always been a ruthless and dangerous business, and it is likely to remain that way.

Simply put, the most powerful state is the one that prevails in a dispute.

A state's potential power is based on the size of its population and the level of its wealth.

Offensive realism predicts that the United States will send its army across the Atlantic when there is a potential hegemon in Europe that the local great powers cannot contain by themselves.

Decapitation is a fanciful strategy.

China, in short has the potential to be considerably more powerful than even the United States.

States have two kinds of power: latent power and military power.

Bandwagoning is a strategy for the weak.

You are perfect, not tomorrow, not in the future, but today.

If birds did not believe in their ability to fly, the sky would be empty.

Without music life is a journey through a desert.

In my search to find myself, I’d found so much more. I knew now why I wanted to live. I understood love. I had found it.

A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic medium of artistic expression.

Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.

Relationship networking is about who you know and more importantly, who knows you. Building the right network can open new doors to future success in your business.

I didn't really start publishing books until I was 40 because I was busy being a McDonald's employee. So there's always a sense of trying to make up for lost time.

Every fighter have a plan until he's been beaten

I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.