You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.

There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.

The fullness or emptiness of life will be measured by the extent to which a man feels that he has an impact on the lives of others.

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.

It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.

You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.