A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

What I know concerns me. What I don't know concerns me even more. What people aren't telling me worries me the most.

I'm a big advocate of drones.

No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and since, than educating students from abroad at our colleges and universities.

I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.

I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming.

Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an old CIA guy'... I said, 'If I wanted to be diplomatic, I'd have been a diplomat.'

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Future U.S. political leaders – those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for me – may not consider the return on America’s investment in NATO worth the cost.

I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a nuclear arms race in the region.

No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on.

Psychotherapy isn't a twentieth-century artifice imposed on nature, but the reinstatement of a natural healing process.

Remember that you don't owe anyone an apology. You are who you are, you have no choice, and that is beautiful.

Politicians study hard and work diligently their entire lives to be able to stand in front of a national audience and lie through their teeth.

The success of the young entrepreneur will be the key to India's transformation in the new millennium.

In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.

It is not the greatness of the work which matters to God but the love with which it is done.

The speeding toy cars produce in the viewer the stress of living in a dynamic, active and bustling 21st-century city.

If a man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knocked out.

Every dog is allowed one bite, but a different view is taken of a dog that goes on biting all the time. He may not get his licence returned when it falls due.

Everyone grows and changes. It's not even to say that you become a better person than you were, but you're morphing. This whole thing is just a weird river that we're on.