On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service?

The stubbornness of a weak man should never be underestimated. The weak tend to be very stubborn when they've decided on something.

It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.

In the 66 years that I have been alive, there has not been one hour, of one day, of one month, of one year, when there has not been a threat aimed at us.

The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom.

The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.

As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy.

… Shannon’s fingers itched to smash the man in the face. Inside his head he kept telling himself, Keep cool, baby, absolutely cool.

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image.

I think it's an interesting thing to have to produce an album that you'll want to listen to for 50 minutes.

Wisdom that don't make us happier ain't worth plowing for.

Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.

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Never forget that all you have is all you need.

Our first responsibility as a leader is to create an attractive dream, to proclaim a destination, communicating it in detail to others who might be interested in joining our expedition.

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.