It is easy to fool yourself. It is possible to fool the people you work for. It is more difficult to fool the people you work with. But it is almost impossible to fool the people who work under you.

Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.

People have sought to adjust the truth to the hour instead of adjusting the hour to the truth, and in diplomacy they have endeavoured to bring about as much of the reality as they deem wise.

When I'm outside the cities I do feel optimistic. There is such grandeur in India and so much beauty.

I don’t want kids to think it’s okay to drop out of school and get high, and they’ll be famous actors, too.

Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists.

Penny saved is a penny got.

Even at 10 or 12, I was a hot, fast little cheerleader.

Alas, our rulers are not gods, but puny, fallible men, like the kings who constantly forget their parts, and we common men should be their prompters.

Ego is the greatest killer of one's potential

It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems.