A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

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.

For success, focus on possibilities not problems.

What's your name? Or is that taboo?--Cinnamon, Hot, Deadly Desire

How can you go wrong with playing around on a superhero show? Just the way that they do things and watching them do their thing was amazing to me. Also, superheroes are awesome!

I don't know if I really watched any Disney animation as a kid.

Parallel lines meet in eternity but Parallel lives meet for tea

Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline.

Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.

It is a rule that those who come into a Court of justice to seek redress, must come with clean hands, and must disclose a transaction warranted by law.

I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.

We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.