By what right do I bend men to my will? Or is there no right, only ability?

Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man's highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.

The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.

I'm afraid we were so eager to avoid war, we've made it all but certain.

The truth is so dear to me that if Orholam stood on one side and truth on the other, I would turn my back on my creator himself.

You're a great man, but only when seen from afar.

Pacifism is a virtue indisguishable from cowardice.

A lie told in the service of truth is virtue.

Pacifism is a virtue indistinguishable from cowardice.

... your father has two secrets. You, Kip are not one of them.

To be a man is to bring together that which you should be and that which you are. Deception is darkness.

Try seeing, feeling, and tasting the water you swim in the way a land animal might perceive it. You may find the experience fascinating -- and mind-expanding.

My coach is, Look at Novak. Look at him. They're so ripped. I'm like, Yeah, well, I can't look like that.

In England you have a good phrase. It is 'to bring the game into disrepute.

Obviously [my daughters] - and Michelle - have made a lot of sacrifices on behalf of my cockamamie ideas, the running for office and things.

To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.

The best years of a man's life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon.

In my view it is better for the Labour Party, the leadership and the new prime minister that he be given the maximum flexibility.

If you hire relatives, you'll have a payroll that won't quit.

The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.

I'm a very humble person. I don't rub salt in people's wounds and I'm genuine.