No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China’s behavior overnight.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I’d be the chief minister.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn’t drink, they didn’t smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.

Most people don’t like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they’ll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.

I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.

People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

We make war that we may live in peace.

Don’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

While the Chinese people, as a rule, are good people, my business dealings with Communist Chinese officials have left me disturbed and concerned about the rise of the Chinese Empire.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

So there’s nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who’s cool hates – and then making it cool.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – meaning primarily the United States – come down to two fundamental issues: ‚What are the accepted and applicable ‚rules of world order,‘ and how do these apply in the case of Kosovo?‘

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

I didn’t just invent saying offensive things.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

I’m really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl – wish I could relive it all over again.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

No one can say, ‚I have dropped out – I am no longer in the system.‘ When you’re in prison, you’re even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don’t transform the system as an absolute thing.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn’t recognize myself.

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the ‚my way or the highway‘ approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

I was a thug.