Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty as they do air without thought or appreciation.

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Between 9 and 10 AM the American radio is concerned almost exclusively with love. It seems a little like ending breakfast with a stiff bourbon.

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

The great corrupter of public men is the ego - corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it. Looking in the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.

The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest.

The important part of growing older was the growing part. Resisting change meant forever standing still, which was a sad way to live.

No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus.

You can't expect people to do the right thing or else they will go to hell. We are already in hell!

We are not here to enjoy the things on earth, but to pass them around. The people who do it are the happiest people you know!

Every generation has their favorite Spider-Man television show.

I started modeling myself on [ Buckminster Fuller], like with the hair. I reached an age where I sort of, kind of, looked like him a little bit, you know? I thought it was great.

There is a growing movement called effective altruism. It's important because it combines both the heart and the head.

Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason.

We have to be sure [students] understand that racial, national, ethnic, and religious hatred can lead to horrible tragedies.

This is a software-powered world.