Americans usually believe that nothing is impossible.

The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.

Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.

There are sometimes problems for which there is no immediate solution, and there are sometimes problems for which there is no solution.

There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas.

The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies.

My father was somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan.

In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.

One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.

We must advertise to U.S. business that we are there, that our attitude has changed, and that we care. When we are asked to help, we have to perform and provide the right advice.

Boys are raw materials that women manufacture into products called men.

...you need to travel to see the ocean - I don't need the ocean - I have the sky...

Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.

I hope this is the lesson we women really commit to memory - we learned that it doesn't work to try be someone other than who you really are.

How many women do we know who were continually kissed by Clark Gable, William Powell, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy and Fredric March? Only one: Myrna Loy...

It's easy to not work on my album. I go out to the cinema, catch up with friends, eat, watch "Curb Your Enthusiasm" - that sort of thing.

You have to have a bunch of dimensions [of yourself]. You have to be able to adapt in this world. You can't be a nice guy living in a world of savages.

Everyone had an opinion and no one had a solution.

In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.