World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.

As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.

The controlled chaos is one way to get creativity. The intensity of it, the physical rush, the intimacy created the kind of dialogue that leads to synergy...

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.

Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are forced to do so by political level authority.

Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.

A world without the United Nations or with a paralyzed United Nations would be far more costly to all of us and far more dangerous to peace and stability.

It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear.

Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings.

I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just mean military, persevering against any challenge. I still believe in that.

Is it the raindrops pervading my being?or is it your lips touching my skin?

Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever and He doesn't need a makeover!

they may all be drunk at my place, but they're all honest, and though we do lie-because I lie, too-in the end we'll lie our way to the truth

Don't DIE byreading BOOKSSomething's out there in the world to bea part of LIFE . . .!

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

I reboot [my Windows PC] every night.

Players are spoiled by charter airplanes, the finest hotels, a big per diem every day.

We must take the time to do what needs to be done now, what is right, instead of passing a bad bill.

I believe every woman should own at least one pair of red shoes.

A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.