To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced.

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Between 9 and 10 AM the American radio is concerned almost exclusively with love. It seems a little like ending breakfast with a stiff bourbon.

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

The great corrupter of public men is the ego - corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it. Looking in the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.

The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest.

When you build a city near no mountains and no ocean, you get materialism and traditional religion. People have too much time and lack inspiration.

Discipline yourself so that all expectations, and inspiration, begin with your core values before relying on someone else's to better your life.

Life is essentially a series of events to be lived through rather than intellectual riddles to be played with and solved.

If there was a war, a big war, a major war on the planet, it would be a nuclear war, and it would destroy all life, human and subhuman, on planet earth.

In the distance, Bo saw a fairy. A fairy so beautiful that he felt proud of being called one in highschool.

Be gentle with everything in your life.

God has put you in this culture at this time for a reason.

Whoso shrinks from ideas ends by having nothing but sensations.

The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.

I was fortunate to work with Corigliano for a few years in the mid nineties. Meeting and working with him during those formative years was an important experience.