I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

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.

I liked being with the books: they reminded me of how many ways of thinking existed outside my own - how small and fleeting my pulse was when set alongside those ageing spines.

Having the kingdom culture is establishing kingdom lifestyle on earth

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

One of the worst things we could do is start to act now as though the attack of 9/11 is a thing of the past and will never be repeated. That's just not true.

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

Stay triumphant, keep on living. Stay on your toes, get off the ropes. Don't let 'em ever count you out.

I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.

I think that is why I do so many different things with the hair, the grills, the crazy shoes.It's just my personality coming out there.

the mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self!

Shoob-be-doo-be-doo-da-day.