No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

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.

The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.

Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces , Faith and Love . Prayer is sublime.

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me.

Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.

I think it can be shown that there is such an unerring power at work in Natural Selection, which selects exclusively for the good of each organic being.

Some taxpayers close their eyes, some stop their ears, some shut their mouths, but all pay through the nose.

Positive thinking is about remembering that our internal world creates and is more powerful than the external.

Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.

The courageous struggle for a noble cause should be considered success itself.

The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology.