We have no lasting friends, no lasting enemies, only lasting interests.

What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth?

Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.

My mother always seemed to me like a fairy princess: a radiant being possessed of limitless riches and power. She shone for me like the evening star. I loved her dearly.

Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government.

Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.