A little uncertainty is good for everyone.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad. Technicians cannot master revolutions; every great achievement was an idea before it became a reality. Cathedrals cannot be built by those who are paralyzed by doubt or consumed by cynicism. If a society loses the capacity for great conception, it can be administered but not governed.

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

Let me make my point about Vietnam. When the Nixon initiation came into office, there were 550,000 Americans in combat. And ending the war was not a question of turning off a television channel. And so, debating on how we got there and what judgments were made was not going to help us.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.