I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.

What I know concerns me. What I don't know concerns me even more. What people aren't telling me worries me the most.

I'm a big advocate of drones.

No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and since, than educating students from abroad at our colleges and universities.

A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming.

Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an old CIA guy'... I said, 'If I wanted to be diplomatic, I'd have been a diplomat.'

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Future U.S. political leaders – those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for me – may not consider the return on America’s investment in NATO worth the cost.

I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a nuclear arms race in the region.

No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on.

Also at times, on the surface of streams, Water?bubbles formAnd grow and burstAnd have no meaning at allExcept that they’re water?bubblesGrowing and bursting.

We're the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different.

But he was wounded, and tired, and winter was still upon him.

Yes, I have had difficult times on court and at certain tournaments but you need to forget about it and go forward because that's the way it works in our world.

We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press.

Love is not all that is required in a relationship. It needs understanding, openness, kidness, patience, long-suffering

It's about whittling. It's about taking something and whittling and whittling and getting it sharp and perfect. Then you've got something.

There is a world of difference between knowing the Word of God and knowing the God of the Word.

Love is the answer to a question that I have forgotten

I've got absolutely no real perception, properly, of time.