My father was somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan.

The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.

Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.

There are sometimes problems for which there is no immediate solution, and there are sometimes problems for which there is no solution.

Americans usually believe that nothing is impossible.

There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas.

The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies.

In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.

One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.

We must advertise to U.S. business that we are there, that our attitude has changed, and that we care. When we are asked to help, we have to perform and provide the right advice.

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

There is something fascinatingly awkward about an author photo. I'm drawn to those glossy shots in the back of books, mostly because the subjects never look happy to be there.

I also combined the R&B feel with the pop music of Taiwan... I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.

I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans.

I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e'en now, e'en now, we die.

I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.

To be spontaneous means not to act out of the past, because out of the past is all cunningness, cleverness, calculation, arithmetic.

Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.