Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.

...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.

If swans weren't real myths'd make up.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

Fantasie is belangrijker dan kennis, want kennis is begrensd.

One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought to be as faithfully kept as any legal contract.

Once in a while I say, 'Go for it' and I eat chocolate.

The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered on a new and enlarged arena.

Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers.

The mission - the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al-Qaeda. But we have to make sure there's not a safe haven that returns in Afghanistan.

Used to ride with him to Brooklyn, Lewis and Halsey, co chocolate thai, vernon style and burn it down

But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted.

People can be motivated to creativity simply with the instruction to "be creative."

In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.