Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard.

If you're afraid - don't do it, - if you're doing it - don't be afraid!

The strength of a wall is neither greater nor less than the courage of the men who defend it.

Remember, you have no companions but your shadow

An action comitted in anger is an action doomed to failure.

All who surrender will be spared; whoever does not surrender but opposes with struggle and dissension, shall be annihilated.

Come and sip from the cup of destruction.

A leader can never be happy until his people are happy.

It is not sufficient that I succeed - all others must fail.

There is no good in anything until it is finished.

Even when a friend does something you do not like, he continues to be your friend.

We will take a few moments and make fun of religious people, and we do this in love. No, we do, because we love to make fun of religious people.

In a democratic society, the only treason is silence.

Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.

What is a family, after all, except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catch-all drawer in the kitchen.

I realized that both the military and religious orders depend on discipline to shape people - which routine does, in a lot of ways.

I still think we have a long way to go on rebuilding a culture of cooking. Everyday simple cooking.

No rebounds, no rings.

It'is like a book, I think, this bloomin' world.

Then, I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.

One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of God's existence.