Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

There's no sinner like a young saint.

On se doit assemer en robes et en armes en tel maniere que li preudome de cest siecle ne dient que on en face trop, ne les joenes gens de cest siecle ne dient …