Henry KissingerThinkers

Academia is marked by viscious university politics precisely because the stakes are so small.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Barack Obama is like a chess grandmaster who has played his opening in six simultaneous games. But he hasn’t completed a single game. It would be nice to see him finish one.

Baseball is the most intellectual game because most of the action goes on only in your head.

The Battle of the sexes is never going to be won; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Celebrity is a condition where, when you bore people, they think it's their fault.

The Committee is a consumer and sometimes a sterilizer of ideas, but rarely a creator of them.

Crisis is a moment in which the most daring course is often safest.

Diplomacy is the art of restraining power.

England is the only European nation that likes war.