Bandwagoning is a strategy for the weak.

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.

Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity.

What does sincerity mean if it is chosen as deliberate strategy?

The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.

Satan sometimes suggests that an offering will satisfy God, when in fact He is demanding our all.

I think what happens is when something becomes successful, then a lot of people take credit for it in such ways that it takes credit away from you.

You will find many a creature by earth, air, and water, that is more beautiful than a woman.

I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting.

Beware of suretyship for thy best friend; he that payeth another man's debt seeketh his own decay.

I won't be able to do a film just for bad reasons, for money or for - I just can't. If I have one more where I feel I can bring you something, I will do it.

Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now.

Successful workers will be those who embrace a lifetime of learning. Those who don't will be left behind.