Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.

Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us.

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

The China of the 1970s was a communist dictatorship. The China of the twenty-first century is a one-party state without a firm ideological foundation, more similar to Mexico under the PRI than Russia under Stalin. But the measurement of the political and the economic evolution has not yet been completed, and is one of the weak points of the system.

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized. So, as a historian, one has to live with a sense of the inevitability of tragedy.