外交家应该具备尊重和理解其他国家和文化的能力，以及跨越语言和文化障碍进行沟通的能力。

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

唯一比摇滚明星更糟糕的是有良知的摇滚明星。

"To be useful was the best thing the old men ever hoped for themselves, and to be aimless was their worst fear."

There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.