The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Between 9 and 10 AM the American radio is concerned almost exclusively with love. It seems a little like ending breakfast with a stiff bourbon.

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

The great corrupter of public men is the ego - corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it. Looking in the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.

The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest.

All death matters.""Only to the living.

It is only light that can extinguish darkness.

Putting it into words will destroy any meaning.

One day I have to wake up and realize that you are gone.

[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you

I don't get upset with anyone after being hit in a game.

The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.

I still put my pants on the same way. I still walk on my pool twice a day.

Stand up for what you believe in even if you are standing alone