If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

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.

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

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

Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.

Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends.

It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.

You make me lovely, and it's so lovely to be lovely to the one I love.

Be more assertive with what you want to do.

Through the years, I have helped thousands of children who were ill or in distress.

Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.

As a man seeing someone, have a decision: You can be correct or you can be glad.

You should never die for your beliefs, because what if you're wrong?

Sorry am I to say, I have often observed that I have performed worst when I most ardently wished to do better than ever.