While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.

People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.

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.

I know a lot of things about you, Garth...And I'm rooting for you anyways.

Some seek the limelight and some hold the light in place

Summer flings always seemed amazing in movies, though that might be because the leading man did not ever call his romantic interest "dude.

Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.

All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper's brain, and he is with them, and part of them.

All too much of the man-made is ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos.

A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.

We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.

She tilted her head, considering the sensation. "It is strange." He gave a hiss of laughter at the words. "It only gets stranger, darling. But we shall try for something more.

I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.