We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master card in your hand.

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.

The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.

Honor begets honor; trust begets trust; faith begets faith; and hope is the mainspring of life.

But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.

If you are going to try to go to war, or to prepare for war, in a capitalist country, you have got to let business make money out of the process or business won't work.

Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball.

Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese.

The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory.

History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such.

Personal development is an ever-evolving process of making more and better distinctions about who you are and what you want.

Can poetry be a form of social change? I don't know the answer to that. I do think art can have a social impact even if it may be difficult to see the effects of that impact, to assess or measure it.

The Zen master can see precisely what it will take to cause your awareness to become free. But the Zen master can't do it for you.

It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear.

Indeed one of the best ways to deflect attacks is to make it look like they're succeeding. It's the software equivalent of playing dead.

That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough to allow us to choose what matters to us.

Give a man a noble cause and he would fight to the death for what he believed in,but get the woman he loves to leave him and his once honourable principles would cease to be quite so important.

I tried to remember how to exhale. I had to look away before it came back to me.

I get told all the time that I'm a fashion icon now, but I don't really know what that means. I just get dressed.