Giving orders you know won't be obeyed is one of the best ways I know to destroy your own authority.

The world's best swordsman doesn't fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot will do.

Oh, bother!,” said Pooh, as Piglet came back from the dead.

Vegtables, what food eats before it becomes food.

My duty is not affected by what others may or may not do to discharge their own.

Son, you'll know you're in love when a woman's voice settles into your spine.

She didn't know a lot about politics – yet – but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a bad situation worse.

All men begin as good men. What they are taught as children, what is expected of them as young men, is either the armor about that goodness or the flaw that allows evil in.

Your Grace," she said, "I have only one question. Do you wish this man crippled, or dead?

It was rumored she held grudges till they died of old age, then had them stuffed and mounted.

...the one certain thing in life is that no one can make the truth untrue simply because it hurts.

Your worst enemy is not the person in opposition to you. It is the person occupying the spot you would be fighting from and doing nothing.

We were worried that our main speaker wouldn't be able to make it tonight. But fortunately due to a hole in the prosecution's case . . .

Words are very much my thing. I'm very picky and choosy with them. So, I kind of edit myself to the point of, almost stumping myself, sometimes.

There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language

Your failures and your faults, they stick with you. They glob into ugly, cancerous growths inside you and make you want to die.

If I should come out of this war alive, I will have more luck than brains.

My attitude toward peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs.

I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death.

I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.

Nobody goes to work to do a bad job.