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

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.

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

Democracy is the best school to learn soft power.

America rests on shared values rather than shared ethnicity.

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.

The point of working isn't to make money

Photos’re better than nothing, but things’re better than photos ’cause the things themselves were part of what was there.

To see your-self you must first be yourself, to be your-self you must first know yourself, and to know your-self you must first love your-self more than anything in the world."-Mark Miller

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

The human body is mostly blood and mystery and sadness.

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

Good morning. You have a moment?" It's clever the way she says it, not as a question. I would have to contradict her in order to have my moment back. I make a note to use the method in the future.

Yesterday, my eyeglass prescription ran out.

I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.