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

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.

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.

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

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

You cannot write unless you write much.

Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.

...only more keenly aware of how her soul starved within her, its wings wasting with the despair of disuse.

Books are the greatest treasure of wisdom and knowledge for mankind.

Whenever I play with him , I usually try to make it a foursome - the President, myself, a paramedic and a faith healer.

For my part, I will never give up, and I mean never.

Sales bring out the worst in people.

Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry.

I'm going to be a better actor, or I'm going to try to be a better actor. I'm going to try to be a better musician. I'm going to be an artist instead of just this one thing.

The truth doesn't hurt. Whatever it is, it doesn't hurt. It's better to know the truth.