“The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.”
Kingman Brewster
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
Oscar Wilde
“Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.”
Mary Anne Radmacher
“It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”
Winston Churchill
“A witty saying proves nothing.”
Voltaire
“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'”
Charles M. Schulz
