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.

The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.

Songwriting was their way to converse with the universe.

The heart knows nothing except its own mind.

England, where no one has guns: 14 deaths. United States...23,000 deaths from handguns. But - there's no connection.

I don't know if I change my act from century to century. Sometimes I'm onstage doing imitations and references to people who have been dead for 50 years.

In carrying out e-commerce, the most important thing is to keep doing what you are doing right now with passion, to keep it up.

I like writing strong women, because as a straight male, there's nothing more attractive to me than a strong girl.

What I know about street outreach is that it is essential to dealing with the issue of youth homelessness.

American Christianity is based more on a godless culture than it is the word of God.

I have turned down playing the most despicable people on Earth. I turn it down all the time.

Honestly, you have to take care of yourself. That's probably something I have learned on the road.