I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

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.

One chance, One life. Make it or screw it up, it's your choice. Don't wait to long or your time will be up.

I like poems that are little games.

Without animal research, polio would still be claiming thousands of lives each year.

The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.

If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards.

Love is a lot like a backache. It doesn't show up on x-rays, but you know it's there.

If anyone steps on your ego, instantly, he becomes your enemy. But a Guru is a friend who constantly tramples your ego.

We’re the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.'

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it.

Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small.