He is now judging himself, harshly, by his captors' rules.

You can actually herd cats. They can't be forced, of course. But if they sense something they want, if there enticed by something good, they'll follow, even in herds.

Moral action – humble and honest – is the tribute that power must at some point pay to reason.

In this era of public survival through continuous storytelling, people want someone who might surprise them.

He was rebuilt, reconstituted by vengeance dressed up as high purpose.

A sense of messianic purpose makes the national interest almost indistinguishable from the political interests of the president.

I'm more depressed about the realities of the mature bureaucracy and more excited about the ideal that we're fighting for. And the juxtaposition has obvious consequences. Rolf Mowatt-Larrsen

Necessity and desperation birth resourcefulness.

A lawyer's empathy for her client deepens when she realizes that she has only seen the last couple of phases of his decline. How hard it must his initial adjustment have been to his loss of freedom?

Public servants in this Europe often do their best when they stop caring about whether they'll be fired.

Disequilibrium is often instigated by the will to power, a sleepless drive in the human personality to control others, to force them to do what one wants, or not to do what one opposes.

When you discover the gift inside you, you have to submit yourself to the gift and improve it

Mother Teresa did not became famous by caring just about herself

The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.

The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.

I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.

I would just like my children to be able to eat fish when they grow up. Now, I don't think there's anything controversial about that.

The composition is already there, you just need to crop it

Seafood on the grill can be intimidating if you don't know what you are doing. It's really quite easy

I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.

I was a very earnest, hard working boy at school, but my parents were distressed because I was always bottom of the class. But I wasn't dilatory, I worked like crazy.