“I want to import what’s important, and export the trivial out of my life.”
“Laughter is America's most important export.”
“Cuba,” he said in his resounding defense plea, “continues to be a producer of raw materials. We exhort sugar to import candy, we export hides to import shoes, we export iron to import plows.”
“Perhaps it’s time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not accomplishments, are what’s important in life.”
“In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.”
“Is it important to be right or is it important to do what’s right? That’s one of the hardest lessons to learn.”