You've got to be able to act when it's necessary to act. And you've got to be able to act where the threat is.

Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.

If we get the capabilities, NATO, along with the European Union, can do amazing things.

Devolution will kill Nationalism stone dead.

My favorite shots are the practice swing and the conceded putt. The rest can never be mastered.

An attack on one is an attack on all.

And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.

The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction.

For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy.

The whole international community will be united in condemning what they have done.

The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a feigned voice. So let all readers of books take warning!

What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.

Creativity is the ability to find new solutions to a problem or new modes of expression; thus it brings into existence something new to the individual and to the culture.

My goal has always been to be a working actor.

Business is many things, the least of which is the balance sheet. It is a fluid, ever changing, living thing, sometimes building to great peaks, sometimes falling to crumbled lumps.

Are you experienced? Have you ever been experienced?

That's why I'm a success, it's because I don't middle in other people's lives.

Lord, save Russia and bring her peace.

I have to be an optimist and say that it might get better.

What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.