President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.

The things that stand out are often the oddities.

American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.

One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions.

As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie.

Whole generations have forgotten history.

The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.

There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.

A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first.

It would take a while before the postmodern Narcissus perceived the ruins of society behind the emptiness of his mirror.

Friends can be the best co-conspirators in charting the unknown.

In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.

Not forgiving somebody is like drinking poison and hoping that the offender will get sick.

The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent

So remember what others think of you depends a lot on what you believe about yourself, what you think you are, what you think about, what you say and what you have proven you can do.

If there was ever a moment to follow your passion and do work that matters, this is it.

Just because you're damaged doesn't mean you must damage others. You have choices. We all make them every day.

I love going into the centre of London because people don't give a monkey's about you or who you are. You can be in a restaurant and no one notices you or if they do they won't show it.

Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father.