I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Between 9 and 10 AM the American radio is concerned almost exclusively with love. It seems a little like ending breakfast with a stiff bourbon.

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

The great corrupter of public men is the ego - corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it. Looking in the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest.

You can't argue with a river, it isgoing to flow.You can dam it up?put it to useful purposes?deflect it, but you can't argue with it.

Understanding who you are within comes through self- awareness and self-education

Chatty, defensive, observant. My new favorite witness.

Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again.

Do I regret getting married? It's hard for me to say anything because ultimately we're talking about the mother of my child.

How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?

I intend to be, the richest man in the world.

Most people presume my mustache is not real because it's much darker than my regular hair.

It took me a long time to be as brave in my personal life as I was in my professional life to be brave in love means opening yourself up to the possibility of heartbreak.

how ridiculous we often are in our negations, our strutting self importance, our penchant for making labels and sticking them on people. As though labelling a person disposed of him!

Demonstration of mastery gives a feeling of power and that feeling of power is a good feeling.