Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.

The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm there.

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.

The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.

I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.

I have no regrets whatsoever that I have acted in a way to advance my country's interests

We have to know who we are and know what we believe.

I was very happy in my job at the United Nations.

If you can't stomach an ending, don't begin.

There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.

I often wonder whether I would have done as well in painting.

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

I love going into a country and just blending.

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

It's all about synthesis, you don't have to be a real musician. You just synthesize your own reality, synthesize your own talents. Welcome to the electronic age.

Usually, when you can't overcome the obstacles in your path, it's not your path.

It is somethingit can be everything-to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking and boasting and reciting and fighting go on below.