Corruption never has been compulsory.

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.

I hate feeling hate but feeling nothing feels worse.

You are no longer a weak, susceptible human. You are Shaede, deadly and cunning. Never bow to that mortal weakness again.

Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.

Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.

Richelle Mead delivers sexy action and tongue-in-cheek hellish humor-if damnation is this fun, sign me up!

The real achiever do one thing at a time.

Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories.

I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.

The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.

May books and nature be their early joy!