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...

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

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.

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.

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.

We have to understand that we are children of God who are called to overcome the world

I never want to leave you." I didn't respond- not because I couldn't find the words, but because there weren't any words in the entire world that could have sounded more perfect.

In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce.

You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.

My father prayed because he had a good friend with whom to share the problems of the day.

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

I'm very interested in variations.

Much of your pain is self-chosen.

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.