Gore Vidal

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

Sometimes the best coaching advice you can get is simple acknowledgement that there's nothing else you could have done.

We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is we do it in the American national interest.