Great wars can only be fought by great powers.

People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.

While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.

After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

The government can give citizens opportunity and it's their responsibility to take advantage of it.

One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.

The real threat to world stability is not too much American power. It is too little American power.

All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.

The world needs a strong America.

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

i have taken life as its came to me first time i wanted to go to life .

America is a tune. It must be sung together.

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.

I have a brother who gives socks for Christmas. He gives socks. Every year, I get a pair of socks from him.

The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.

I loved playing Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar. I mean you can't do better than playing God!

Nothing in this world came out of satisfaction. Except the human race.

I like that totally mixed up kind of eclectic group of personal props and bits of costume and I think the fun of doing that is where I was very lucky with Doctor Who.

Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.

The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.