Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.

Where position is felt to be a birthright, generosity is possible (though not guaranteed); flexibility is not inhibited by a commitment to perpetual success.

Countries do not assume burdens because it is fair, only because it is necessary.

In relations with many domestically weak countries, a radio transmitter can be a more effective form of pressure than a squadron B-52s.

The greatest need of the contemporary international system is an agreed concept of order.

The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance.

Tutelage is a comfortable relationship for the senior partner, but it is demoralizing in the long run. It breeds illusions of omniscience on one side and attitudes of impotent irresponsibility on the other.

Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.

To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.