"It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it."

"Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God."

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

"No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy."

"Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth."

"Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty."

"The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven."

"Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away."