“I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.”

“The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.”

“She had interviewed leading personalities all over the world. Fame was sufficiently novel for me to be flattered by the company I would be keeping. I had not bothered to read her writings; her evisceration of other victims was thus unknown to me.”

“I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.”

“There can't be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.”

“Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God”

“Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.”