No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth.

I adore the past. So much more restful than the present. So much more dependable than the future.

The way to have power is to take it.

The press made me something I really wasn't and I tried to live up to what they made me.

There's a very fine line between one person's reality and another person's fantasy.

Winston [Churchill] is the only remaining specimen of a real Tory.

A legend, Kludd, is a story that you begin to feel in your gizzard and then over time it becomes true in your heart. And perhaps makes you become a better owl.

I never left my roots. You can identify me as someone that didn't become high and mighty. Humility is a defining [trait] all of us can forever learn, and I try to be as humble as anyone can be.

Acheron. When it absolutely, positively must be destroyed overnight.

I know their game. First, the traders and the missionaries: then the ambassadors: then the cannon. It's better to go straight to the cannon.

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.

[Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.'