"I believe in the power of literature to create empathy and understanding between people."
Art is not an escape from reality, but a deeper engagement with it.
Diplomacy requires strategic and long-term thinking to achieve a country's long-term interests and security.
The best decisions are made when you combine data with human intuition.
The greatest happiness of the thinking man is to have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly revere the unfathomable.