Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

In the stillness of the ocean, I wonder at the dancing waves.

Success and failure are options equally available to all, the dividing line is your choices and opportunities harnessed or missed.

It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time.

I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.

I can't stand a sentence until it sounds right.

It's sexier when a girl is flirty but she doesn't do anything.

Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.

You are the best thing that's ever been mine.