I might be alone, but i'm never lonely.
Time is a friend - perhaps the best one we shall ever have. . . . Time is a now - and there is only now. Memories look backward. Hope looks ahead. But there is in reality only now.
a diplomat. . . is not worthy of the name unless he can say 'no' and make the other person like it - or at least not be offended by it.
The hope of any nation lies in the personal qualities of its individual members.
If Democracy should fail, it would be because we had been so lacking in self-discipline that our personal problems had taken all our substance and energies, leaving us nothing of value to contribute to the commonwealth.
they're the sort of people one invites to lunch or tea, but never to dinner.
So few people can think and talk at the same time.
The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately, don't bargain.
The one thing I'm quite critical of Hillary Clinton for, and it obviously hurt her, is that at some level, the Clintons had to know that she was going to run for president. Why did they feel it necessary to make tens of millions of dollars with speaking engagements? They must have known that it would look grotesque. The word for it is "buckraking. " It's beyond me. I don't understand it.
Jackie Wilson said it was Reet-Petite, kind of love you got knock me off my feet.
Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.