A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

He who laughs last didn't get the joke.

You have to focus on the finish line from the starting line.

The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

The history of human consciousness is marked by the battle between the old awareness, the ways of fear, and the new awareness, the ways of love.

Ideas do not need weapons.

Life's experiences are intended to make you eventually face yourself. Face reality!

I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss.

There is nothing boring in life except ourselves.

All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history.

This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change, For 'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.