No one can upset you, unless you give them permission.

There is so much we just can't see or know right now, including precisely how our actions will ripple out.

We have to distrust each other. It's our only defense against betrayal.

In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.

I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those.

It's not the moutain we conquer but ourselves.

Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.

Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.

To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.

It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system.

The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.