At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy.

Now we have a whole series of problems - energy, environment, proliferation - which go beyond the nation. And we also know that a conflict between major powers would be a catastrophe for which there is no compensation in anything you can gain.

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.

The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.

With proper tactics, nuclear war need not be as destructive as it appears.

A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.

People think responsibility is hard to bear. It's not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a great feeling of impotence.