A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.

Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only one day, of modern warfare.

We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.

If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.