I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician...
The human race is governed by its imagination.
Imagination rules the world.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever.
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's...
We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253.