I think I'm the first man to sit on top of the world.
I think Hadley is to Rice as Scowcroft was to Kissinger; not inclined to think or act independently.
If you're convinced that you face bad options, then by all means take the least bad.
Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!
I always tell what I see.
Dead or alive, interesting people are interesting people.
In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.
Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira.
Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.
The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.
I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.
In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along.
If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.
The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
