Do not fear the enemy, for they can take only your life. Fear the media far more, for they will destroy your honour.

Any forces that would impose their will on other nations will certainly face defeat.

My fighting gospel is T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom. I am never without it.

If you don't like the consequences of change then you have chosen to stay the same.

We all want to feel like the most beautiful woman in the room, to be chosen and loved forever. The Cinderella story gives us hope of our impossible dreams becoming true.

The loyal subject serves not two lords. The chase woman knows no second man.

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.

And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name.

Nothing is of a permanent nature.

How dear to the mind of the sage are the thoughts that are bred in loneliness; for there is as it were music at his heart, and he talketh within him as with friends.

A lot of the stuff I have done had been not only the likable guy, but like the nice likable guy.

New fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct.

I was a relationship retard. I kicked, shoved, and punched people out of my life, so they never had a chance to hurt me.