All prejudices are equally fatal to good government.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette.

I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

The more the planners, the worse the plans.

Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

Anthony's father was a mad baronet and his mother a very beautiful woman. That's Anthony-half mad baronet, half beautiful woman.

Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

Want me to flex my magic for you, baby?

What's the burn scale?

Do we choose sleep? Hell no and bullshit - we fall. We give ourselves over to possibility, to whim and fancy, to the bed, to the pillow, the tiny white tablet. And these choose for us.

The rain turns lighter, turns to snow. And I have a sense that we have not yet arrived, that we are still reaching. For each other. For who we are meant to be.

Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.

Except, I think, it's more about me growing up and becoming an adult that I have this new best-friend type of relationship with my mom.

I don't really care what people think about me if they don't let me see it.

I had been sort of a rising star - an athlete, a scholar, a leader. My dream was to become a high-level national security adviser.

Answer all the questions that I'm too afraid to ask

A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. ... Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.