Old age is a shipwreck.

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 was the solitary plovera pencil for a wing-boneFrom the secret notesI must tiltupon the pressureexecute and adjust In us sea-air rhythm"We live by the urgent waveof the verse

Making the ungrateful grateful will bring tears to your eyes, tears of blood bleeding from the heart.

The course of nature is the art of God.

We tell ourselves that God is dead, when what we mean is that God is Dad, and we wish him dead.

Cooperstown is the greatest place on Earth.

A relationship cannot survive the test of time without trust.

I took a drink. "I guess it's different for you.""Hmm?" "I bet you have girls hanging all over you. Dozens would probably kill to be in my spot and here I am, allergic to your bread.

It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less.

I don't watch a lot of featherweight fights yet some of those fights are the best fights ever.

[The Raindance film festival] is literally the first time we've ever screened the movie ["Selling Isobel"] to anyone, and people are a little bit traumatised by it.