No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

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.

Seek the spark of divinity within thy soul.

Lovely flowers sometimes bloom in ugly places.

You can tell that hold is effective because his face is red and the rest of his body is the color of a bottle of 2% milk.

You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams.

Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary similarity for real identity.

When you're in a play, you never really have a sense of what an audience is experiencing. The experience of doing a play is so different from the experience of seeing it.

I'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men.

Ah, there’s the governess voice. All stern and disapproving. It makes me feel like a naughty schoolboy.

Everything has changed for me since I've changed my name. It's one thing to be called Prince but it's better to actually be one. I have such a reverence for life.

I'd like to be my old self again but I'm still trying to find it