Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

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.

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

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.

What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one

I'm dying from about ninety-nine kinds of shame

Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!

[Albert Camus] always held a profound commitment [engagement], a real resistance to all totalitarianism.

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?

Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools; Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools: Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell; Not left us women, or not threatened hell.

Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.

Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?

If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.