To convince people to back your idea, you've got to sell it to yourself and know when it's the moment. Sometimes that means waiting. It's like surfing. You don't create energy, you just harvest energy

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect towards others.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

Innovation is futuristic. Those who do not innovate are bound to stagnate.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.

God is everywhere.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

World belongs to humanity, not the leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity. 

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.