For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.

All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.

We [journalists] tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

Any coalition has its troubles, as every married man knows.

The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.

Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.

I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.

The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.

Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he bases it

I admire sensible, kind people. They're not often famous.

Learn from yesterday, live for today.

Almost any group of three is going to form a triangle, with two points closer to one another.

Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me.

True beauty is to behold and reflect the beauty of God.

Welcome back, my cheeky wee monkeys.

All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention.

I got interested in the American culture war back in 2004, and it's one of the only growth stocks I've ever invested in.

I've never been with an uncircumcised guy.

Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.