Money and donations are an important part of our political system. They are hard power.

Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.

In the information age, it's not just whose army wins, but whose story wins.

Democracy is the best school to learn soft power.

America rests on shared values rather than shared ethnicity.

Terrorism is like jujitsu: The small players win if they make the large player use his strength against himself.

American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate.

His [Osama bin Laden]excessive use of terror, including numerous attacks that indiscriminately killed many women and children, and of course many Muslims, has hurt the attractiveness of his message.

Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

Hollywood has gone from the capital of conspicuous consumption to the cutting edge of conspicuous conservation.

There are only two secrets to a slimmer shape ... High heels and shoulder pads!

The right use of color can make any composition work.

It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.

Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.

What we gotta do is, we gotta figure out a way to reverse gravity, so that we all fall upward, through the clouds and sky, all the way to Heaven.

Believing that power is much more important than money and that money is much more important than happiness.

It's better to feel sorry for doing something bad than to feel superior for doing something good.