One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

What I know concerns me. What I don't know concerns me even more. What people aren't telling me worries me the most.

I'm a big advocate of drones.

No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and since, than educating students from abroad at our colleges and universities.

I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.

A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming.

Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an old CIA guy'... I said, 'If I wanted to be diplomatic, I'd have been a diplomat.'

Future U.S. political leaders – those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for me – may not consider the return on America’s investment in NATO worth the cost.

I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a nuclear arms race in the region.

No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on.

A child’s imaginary playmate just might actually be there.

Conservative Christians take every word of the Bible literally except for the part about Loving Thy Neighbor.

It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?

The kids now are more productive than we ever were; they're a lot more prolific and productive in the sense that they have to have music out all the time.

You get closer to your own humanity by understanding the stories of other people and the struggles they have.

I want you for always...days, years, eternities.

These people [Bush Administration] are for the most part rip-off artists. Notice that they're all gas and oil men from Cheney, to the two Bushes; I think Rumsfeld also.

What an amazing thing to feel known and loved, to feel understood, to walk through life with another person.

There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I'm the biggest sinner of them all.

The process of nature cannot be evil.