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

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.

Bandwagoning is a strategy for the weak.

We have truth in order not to die of art.

Our deepest wounds surround our greatest gifts.

Imagination means nothing without doing.

Minerva, kindly go to Hagrid's house, where you will find a large black dog sitting in the pumpkin patch. Take the dog to my office, tell him I will be with him shortly, then come back here.

I go jogging for 25 minutes every morning, even if I'm away from home.

What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.

People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority.

It's taken me years to embrace the softer elements of who I am and let that shine some.

She was thinking what I think she was thinking, wasn't she?

Acting, I love it and I feel that I'm good at it, but the thing that makes me feel most alive is when I'm playing guitar and singing.