The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

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.

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

The beauty of blue water touches my heart and lovingly invites me to swim with her.

I just wanted a style of music all my own.

There are two forms of justice. There is what is called retributive justice and there is restorative justice.

Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won.

With all things in life, we do not get what we ask for, we get what we expect.

I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.

Now there's the Niida we all know and loathe.

If you tell me, I will listen. If you show me, I will see. If you let me experience, I will learn!

Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.