Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

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.

Stop comparing yourself to other people, just choose to be happy and live your own life.

The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.

I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often.

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

The book is a unit and is such a brilliant ergonomic unit.

I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!

One of them hung a pink bra from our lighting fixture. I left it there. It was a nice bra

I will take my coffee black / never snack / hang with the wolves who are sheepish.

We see in others what we want and what we fear.

I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than theology.