To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
In my experience, in bringing coercive diplomacy to bear against Slobodan Milosevic, no bomb strike was more important than maintaining NATO's cohesion.
It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
The Obama administration has been curtailing press freedom - but that hasn't ended the press' drool-cup worship for their beloved president.
Tunisian liberals say that the U.S. Embassy in Tunis is unengaged with their efforts to make sure the Tunisian model remains one of expanding freedom.
The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
Workers of France, it is for the freedom of the prisoners that you will go to work in Germany! It is for our country that you will go in large numbers!
Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.
I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.
Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
