I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.

When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails.

Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U.S. forces find - and there will be plenty.

Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.

When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways.

It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong.

The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will.

If a caterpillar doesn't know its future has wings, it hardly experiences itself as land-bound.

Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role.

Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less.

I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.

Live a colourful life. If you can't, develop your own Photoshop and colour it!

You carry the message you've been seeking, but realization of it is found in healthy retrospection, not among the wilderness of chaotic noise.

Constantly worrying about your reflection and criticizing your body, shape and size is an act of violence against yourself.

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

I was ten years old when my first Vogue cover sang me its siren call and dashed me against the treacherous rocks of fashion obsession.

Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.

We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.

When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.

We never get to the bottom of ourselves on our own. We discover who we are face to face and side by side with others in work, love and learning.

In journalism, there are only two stories - "Oh, the wonder of it," and "Oh, the shame of it."