Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality.

We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.

Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals.

Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.

The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed.

To this day we seem to act in the world as though we know what's right for everybody.

There are many ways to make the death rate increase.

At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what happened. Develop the lessons and pass them on.

Brains are like hearts - they go where they are appreciated.

It was a perfectly beautiful night, as fall nights are in Washington. I walked out of the president's Oval Office, and as I walked out, I thought I might never live to see another Saturday night.

Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive

Justice has a right to protest against injustice.

I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.

It's also a lot easier to convince people to read an entertaining story than any other type of book!

When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.

I may not be perfect but I am perfect enough to be a very good rendition of me.

It is not our ability that limits us but our view/belief of what we can achieve.

Home for me is wherever my wife and kid are.

He was quiet. I said nothing, hoping that maybe, for once, he'd stop pretenting he was okay. Then I could, too. That we could both forget the roles that had so long bound us.

Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.