Better to use force when you should rather than when you must.

Agreement reached by the negotiators?usually starts to collapse in the hands of those who implement it, no matter how carefully cleared at the top.

The way to keep weeds from overwhelming you is to deal with them constantly and in their early stages.

Gardening?is one of the most underrated aspects of diplomacy.

The decision makers face each other. No safety screen stands between the issues and the highest authorities.

Washington is a resigning town. Nothing else holds the special excitement of a rumored resignation.

I grieve for every death.

It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one. I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place.

Sometimes it is hard not to say "God forgive God." Sometimes, it is hard to say so much. But if our faith is true, He didn't. He crucified Him.

A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.

I don't play them a lot of minutes. I have great starters. I have All-Stars, world champions.

Divine Intelligence working through me always knows just what I need and always supplies it when I need it.

The citadel of Machaerus rose east of the Dead Sea on a basalt Peak shaped like a cone, girdled by four deep valleys; two about its sides, one in front, and the fourth behind.

Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected.

I enjoy research as much as writing so I try to make my stories as fact-based as possible, which I think helps them seem more authentic.

You may not realize this, but people have the power to change the world.

The first record I bought with my own money was Rio.