History is littered with the wars everybody knew could never happen.

As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood.

In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.

A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea.

Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price.

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles.

The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

Remember:all the thoughts you have of yourself and others are written on your face. Make them kind.

If you know the art of being happy with simple things, then you know the art of having maximum happiness with minimum effort!

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

It was never easy to look into the future, but it is possible and we should not miss our chance.

I think that we are supernatural. We are unique. We're the only animals in the universe that we know of that actually have self-consciousness, a sense of time and our own mortality.

A secret society within a secret society.

I actually believe in denial.

If you take a needle and stick her in the booty and take a needle and stick me in the booty, we're both going to say ouch.

If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's always people dying of violence or stray bullets.

What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web … Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring.