"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."

"High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. 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."

"We cannot always assure the future of our friends we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are."

"Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision."

"Wisdom principle 83 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 65."

"Wisdom principle 94 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 1."

"It is a subtle truth that energy directed with unwavering focus can bend the arc of destiny."

"It is a enduring truth that the highest expression of strength is tenderness toward the vulnerable — an essential principle for the reflective life."