Deliberation is the work of many men. Action of one alone.

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.

Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

The journey back is always longer than the forward run.

In life, you have two choices: Do you control your life… or not? Are you the driver or the passenger? Do you make stuff happen, or let stuff to happen?

This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.

I don't know one Jewish person that doesn't want to have a deal, a good deal, a proper deal, but a really good deal.

Sailor Moon' was my favorite cartoon of all time, and I'm still kind of obsessed with it. I own all the DVDs to watch it at home.

No agreement between the British and Muslims can affect me. An agreement between Hindus and Muslims alone will affect me.

There's a storm inside of us. I've heard many team guys speak of this. A burning. A river. A drive.

There is nothing left for me to do but to go and see General Grant and I would rather die a thousand deaths.