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

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

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

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

At the MoorWanderer in the black wind

Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.

There is for each man a day, an hour, a minute. The Bible talks in many places about the brevity of life, and the Bible warns that we should be prepared to meet God at all times.

Some horror movies are just for shock value, so it doesn't really feel scary.

Prayer is the most sacred occupation a person could engage in.

Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.

By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.

If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt....There is no believing without some doubting, and believing is all the stronger for understanding and resolving doubt.

My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.

If you're in a card game and you can't figure out who the patsy is, you're it.