I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen.

An American diplomat is sometimes like a bull who carries his own china shop around with him.

This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office.

The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians.

So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common... Celebrate it every day.

I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly.