Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Appetizers are the little things you keep eating until you lose your appetite.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Do not lengthen the quarrel while there is an opportunity of escaping.

To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it cant be taken on its own merits.

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

It is impossible to live without brains, either one’s own or borrowed.

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. … What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn’t make it.

One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.