All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

I consider myself a bassist first.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.

No one can express who you are and what you stand for more than you do. Don't leave that to chance or others. If you do so, the likelihood of other people misgauging you is high. Take charge!

Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine.

When you harness your leadership skill to your broken heart change happens.

Too close a view may interfere with one's grasp of an overall problem or concept.

There is nothing that is truly free nor democratic enough. Make no mistake, the internet did not come to save the world.

The agreement to place the binational planning group at our new Northern Command was also signed in December.

When I go out I get so much love I gotta change my way of thinking.

On the Republican playing field, Republicans always win.

Nobody could ever say as many terrible things to me as I say to myself.