Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.