The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself.

The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself.

As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.

Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.

If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot.

Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.

In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer.

Freedom is not to defy it is to co exist. It is a challenge for the imagination

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

David Foster Wallace, in my opinion, is one of the greatest writers we've ever had, certainly in the last twenty years. His obvious dominance of the English language is partnered with honest moments and the most beautifully dark sensibility.

I've got to read the 'Hunger Games' before I see the movie.

I've never been one to carefully calculate my career decisions, to sit on the outside looking in. I go with my passion and what moves me.

If you are an idealist, it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.

I get a much more extreme reaction when I have my hair really short. I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter. It's a much more extreme reaction.

I basically applied to law school as a way of telling my parents that I wasn't going to medical school.

Teamwork: Simply stated, it is less me and more we.

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.

Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

I came to the United States in the early '80s and was welcomed with open arms and given the opportunity to pursue my dreams. God has been very kind to us. My family and I are fortunate enough to be successful and we feel a tremendous responsibility and obligation to give back to our great country.

The power dynamics in a relationship are going to be fluid over a long period of time, so to wait for 'perfect' is going to be a mistake.

Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.

Devil take the hindmost

Nowhere in the job description of an artist is the requirement that I must validate your taste.

That was my aspiration, so I was there in a seminary with just boys who were studying to be priests. Pretty rigorous schooling; we never got home, we stayed there all year.

It's a great meeting place, community center, art gallery, singles bar, music venue. The record store really covers a lot of ground.

Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it's sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq.

Dividing everybody into genders and sexuality and races and religions, and I think it's important to have films out there, to have discussions out there which really try to get to grips with where that kind of thing can lead.

The will to win is the only thing.

What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.