A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

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.

Peace for thyself is the peace for thy neighbour which begins with a prayer.

Try to be patient and wait for God time to come and see how thing will work for you. Keep trying and never stop trying because there's no harm in that and one day you will hit your target.

I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night

All things come to him who waits- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

Before I became a fighter pilot, everyone said that women didn't have the physical strength. Well, I had just completed the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon.

Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.

We are all more connected than ever. That connectivity builds tolerance.

I thought Out of Action was better as a catalogue than the honeycomb because the honeycomb was like walking into one compartment and then another compartment.

I cleaned the attic with the wife the other day. Now I can't get the cobwebs out of her hair.

How well that human potential has been fulfilled over the years by people with a deep and abiding connection to Pennsylvania.