It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear.

As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.

The controlled chaos is one way to get creativity. The intensity of it, the physical rush, the intimacy created the kind of dialogue that leads to synergy...

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.

Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are forced to do so by political level authority.

Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.

World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.

A world without the United Nations or with a paralyzed United Nations would be far more costly to all of us and far more dangerous to peace and stability.

Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings.

I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just mean military, persevering against any challenge. I still believe in that.

He was able to love them again, but he loved them now in a wiser way, knowing their weakness.

I didn't put him in his place. I was acknowledging his blind spot. We all have them. It just takes the right push to be able to really see them.

I never have anything to talk about.

Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

I got injured when I was a kid, and it prevented me from becoming a footballer.

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.

Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do.