If people stop having secrets they stop having power.

You've only got to be in public life for about a week before you start to question if the newspapers are even giving you today's date with any accuracy!

Being a journalist, Hacker had no particular talent for reporting facts.

Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them.

Clarification is not to clarify things. It is to put one’s self in the clear (Sir Humphrey Appleby)

Without the will or desire to achieve one is like flotsam on the oceans of time.

I miss the days when I was alone with my characters and no one else knew them except me.

A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit.

Simplified living is about more than doing less. It’s being who God called us to be, with a wholehearted, single-minded focus.

A daily routine built on good habits and disciplines separates the most successful among us from everyone else. The routine is exceptionally powerful.

Investors who find the best businesses to put their money behind are rewarded for their research.

Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake.

We see that there are two worms that eat the fabric of the Church, weakening Her. Rivalry and vainglory go against this harmony, this agreement.