Rationality will not save us.

We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.

Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals.

Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.

The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed.

To this day we seem to act in the world as though we know what's right for everybody.

There are many ways to make the death rate increase.

At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what happened. Develop the lessons and pass them on.

Brains are like hearts - they go where they are appreciated.

It was a perfectly beautiful night, as fall nights are in Washington. I walked out of the president's Oval Office, and as I walked out, I thought I might never live to see another Saturday night.

It doesn't do to sacrifice for people unless they want you to.

I use those medical gloves that fit very tightly and are disposable for all chopping - peppers, onions, garlic, etc. Very Lady Macbeth, I think.

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

I could break bricks with my hands when I was 12.

There's no default. Each emotional experience elicits a different, possibly new response.

When they're born outside, crows come and pluck their eyes out.

This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.

People keep me going. I believe people are wonderful.

Nirvana is the complete silencing of concepts.

The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video.