With a nation, as with a boxer, one of the greatest assurances of safety is to add reach to power.

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.

You still wake up sometimes. You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.

Keep all your passions in your life.

I rarely do things based on what everybody else is doing; I never have.

I have a great memory. And actually, I remember Russia in some ways better than I remember Queens.

pragmatist that I am, I always meet necessity with enthusiasm.

Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life.

Don't play dead with a vulture. That's exactly what they want.

Sweet mother of chaos," he breathed. "Rachel, you are indeed one of us. Have your time in the sun. You're worth the extra wait.

I think people who aren't in film experience that when they hear their voice on an answering machine or something.

Use half as many words and they'll hit twice as hard.