Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

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.

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.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Each day is a blessing, and I awake wondering what wonderful thing, no matter how big or small, will happen to me today.

Drinking Shirley Temple with my Mary Janes on, let's say that every possibility waits

He wasted his wishes on wishing.

You are the product of your own brainstorm.

The soul is the ancestral animals. The body is their knowledge.

Determination, with an optimistic attitude is the key to success.

What we are in ourselves, and what we owe to others makes us a complete whole.

Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations.

Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.

The Arab world had a big problem of frankly venal elites. That is why these revolutions happen, because people didn't think the opportunities were being shared fairly.