Agreement reached by the negotiators?usually starts to collapse in the hands of those who implement it, no matter how carefully cleared at the top.

The way to keep weeds from overwhelming you is to deal with them constantly and in their early stages.

Gardening?is one of the most underrated aspects of diplomacy.

The decision makers face each other. No safety screen stands between the issues and the highest authorities.

Better to use force when you should rather than when you must.

Washington is a resigning town. Nothing else holds the special excitement of a rumored resignation.

I grieve for every death.

It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one. I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place.

They stamped their own pattern of lovers onto the fabric of Paris.

Dream Big! Never apologize for it!

Cowards only find courage in the number of their likeness, citing their lofty strongholds as havens for their impunity.

I went searching in a foreign land and found my way home.

Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.

When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

Are you honest with the Lord in the payment of your tithes? Living this divine law will bring both spiritual and material blessings.

A realistic recognition of the human condition is that it is corrupt beyond belief. What do you suppose would happen if the police all took a week off?

I think it makes people frustrated when they have to live their actual lives commercial free and they can't just magically wind up at the part with the happy ending.

[Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.