The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.

The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake.

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

Charm never made a rooster.

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.

The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

They think something's gone wrong, but in Don't Look Now, for instance, one scene was made by a mistake. It's the scene where Donald Sutherland goes to look for the policeman who's investigating the two women.

It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason just couldn't manage to integrate into Western society, even though they had good opportunities for advancement.

I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today.

You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor.

Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement.

I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

The results would have stayed on the watch face until the batteries died. But trying to make time stand still this way would have been a mistake. It is just as important to erase times eventually as to save them at first.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.

The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.

I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake.

At a time when our moral standing in the world has been weakened by a rubber stamp Justice Department that placed the Bush Administration above the law, we now need someone who is objective and independent. And, make no mistake, Eric Holder is independent.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.