There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Maybe you are the "cool" generation. If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.