There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

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.

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.

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

A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone.

Personal growth by tackling the ‘big-picture” through focusing on the things you have power to influence is more effective and less stressful.

Colonel Henry Blake, a surgeon: "I can paint a barn with someone else's blood. I just can't stand to see my own.

Don't whine to your spouse about your daily troubles. He's had a harder day providing for you and your children. This is what you're aspiring to?

Move forward to the next step, there is something that change your whole life". Be positive

Thomas felt his spirits lift, but immediately squashed them back down. Getting his hopes up was something he’d sworn never to do again. Not until all this was over.

I think in times of crisis it's the artists' responsibility to dig a little deeper.

Virtually nothing can stop a man who has a goal clearly in sight.

I came from Mechanicsville, Virginia, where you have four seasons.