Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

One of the things I learned, the easiest of lessons, was that the better you do your job, often going against conventional mores, the less popular you are likely to be.

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

I have a great faith in the strength and the resilience in the American people.

Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it

The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable.

A staff can be no better than the man it serves.

Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

Invest money and you'll get a check. Invest in people and you'll get time.

But a lady forced is never a lady won

A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.

Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it.

I've always thought that less was a lot more.

All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before.

It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one "to have his passion as a profession.

He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.

What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.

The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.