The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work.

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.

I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

The depiction of the exterior as opposed [to] what you're feeling inside is always so different that it's impossible to know what is right.

He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.

Spring comes: the flowers learn their colored shapes.

I must say, I find everything interesting.

The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.

Let us be humble and keep ourselves down: - Obedience! Humility! Detachment!

I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die

I don’t follow fashion and I don’t follow trends, I just follow my instincts...