America rests on shared values rather than shared ethnicity.

Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.

In the information age, it's not just whose army wins, but whose story wins.

Money and donations are an important part of our political system. They are hard power.

Democracy is the best school to learn soft power.

Terrorism is like jujitsu: The small players win if they make the large player use his strength against himself.

American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate.

His [Osama bin Laden]excessive use of terror, including numerous attacks that indiscriminately killed many women and children, and of course many Muslims, has hurt the attractiveness of his message.

Look at your heart-flower and smile.You will be able to solve your most pressing problems.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

You’ll never have a 16-team playoff in college football. The most that could happen would be four teams in the next century. But after that, I’m dead, so who cares?

I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid!

All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?

They are all different and I find it hard to tell what flute suits me best.

Even though at 17 it was limited, I had a life before Batman.

To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

Going there [Japan] in the early 80s was quite a culture shock. I think the bombardment of Shinjuku and all that would have filtered through, which certainly informed things we later filmed.

Surviving is the strongest memory I have; the sense of having walked on water.