Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive.

One of the best ways to persuade others is by listening to them.

We're eyeball to eyeball...and I think the other fellow just blinked.

Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state

One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up trouble somewhere.

If you don't pay attention to the periphery, the periphery changes and the first thing you know the periphery is the center.

While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.

Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.

The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks

When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one.

The pace of events is moving so fast that unless we can find some way to keep our sights on tomorrow, we cannot expect to be in touch with today.

You don't choose to love. It chooses you.

Success makes me happy, but it doesn’t give me peace. Because I do believe that success is not enough for our cause. We are born to struggle and nothing must deceive us.

Live virtuously and you cannot die too soon or live too long.

Autumn wins you best by this: its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.

Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.

It was reported today that Michelle Obama wants her mother to move into the White House with them. Yes. This is expected to be the first time Barack uses his veto power.

One of the key pieces is a great pair of shoes. Women say they always look at a man’s shoes, which is really strange! But it can ruin an outfit. Accessories are hugely important.

No true search for enlightenment ignores the suffering of other sentient beings. Ever. We simply need to create a way to address that suffering while remaining in a blissful center.

All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. / No book ever ends / When it's full of your friends / The Giraffe and the Pelly and me.