Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault.

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

We will be stronger, if we love each other.

She looked over the colored boxes of smiling women holding plastic sticks. Why isn’t there a box showing a terrified teen?

By mastering character and plot, you give your book a fighting chance and withoutcharacter and plot, no book can survive.

There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.

You know I want to be a director, but you could never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed, is why we broke up.

From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.

I was screaming constantly, on the set, in my room... everywhere.

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.

You can fall in the area of your strength as easily as you could fall in the area of your weakness.

I've almost lost several times but come through that. Being able to play your way through the tournament is really able to help.