Countries do not assume burdens because it is fair, only because it is necessary.

Where position is felt to be a birthright, generosity is possible (though not guaranteed); flexibility is not inhibited by a commitment to perpetual success.

The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.

History knows no resting places and no plateaus.

A crisis does not always appear to a policymaker as a series of dramatic events. Usually it imposes itself as an exhausting agenda of petty chores demanding both concentration and endurance.

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.