The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
From Henry Kissinger
If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
In crises the most daring course is often safest.
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