Any coalition has its troubles, as every married man knows.

For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.

All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.

We [journalists] tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.

Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.

I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.

The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.

Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he bases it

It’s like I need to love you to come back whole from where I sometimes go.

Children observe everything with caution.

For all that my co-workers put such stock in not being a transfer, we had a definite edge in one area. As a human, you were born knowing that you were going to die.

You are not broken and in need of fixing. You are wounded and in need of healing.

It's cold water in the face to realize you're not nearly as special and as unusual as you might have thought when you were an alienated teenager.

I read 'Dracula' in high school. I've been around vampires forever.

cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

And when life's sweet fable ends, soul and body part like friends; no quarrels, murmurs, no delay; a kiss, a sigh, and so away.