The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.

Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.

I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.

Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.

Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.

As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.

Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement.

Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke.

Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.

We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.

Be kind like a flower and know that life is beautiful like springtime.

I still don't believe I won the U.S. Open. It's so far-fetched for me.

I can't think of anything I want and need that I don't already have but at the same time, I'm not sated.

No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake.

Actually, I have only two things to worry about now: afterlife and reincarnation.

I think jewelry is beautiful on all women and I think it's sentimental - and Disney is sentimental. It's subtle and it's low-key and it's just a sweet reminder of sweetness.

Most of my company is run by women. There's a certain sensitivity to what I want to express, so that's what I want around me.

Writing is a skill, not a talent, and this difference is important because a skill can be improved by practice.

Body is the name of a stream of matter continuously changing.

Love ice cream. I let myself have that about once a week. Vanilla.