Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious.

Love endures when the lovers love many things together And not merely each other.

The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.

We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made us acutely aware, govern deeply the whole process of perception.

The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.