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

“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.”

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

“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. ”

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

“A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security”

“In Washington...the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it. In fact, the appearance is frequently its essential reality”