One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer luck, good or ill.

It often happens that people come to believe in their own fictions.

Justice in politics has an uncomfortable habit of being rough.

The fact is that Margaret Thatcher was never really a Conservative.

In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.

Who are you?'I didn't understand the question.I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?'I gave him my name. 'Stopthief.

I remember staring at my son endlessly when he was an infant, stunned by his very existence, wondering where on earth he had come from.

It's not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.

The irresponsible rhetoric of Barack Obama, who has used the pulpit of the presidency to divide us by race and color, has made America a more dangerous environment than frankly I have ever seen.

William F. Buckley, Jr. does not so much speak as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable.

I don't know. When I was born there was a nurse taking care of me." "What's the matter? Couldn't the nurse take care of herself?" "Sure she could. I just found that out too late.

A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.

I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.

Either I will come back after hoisting the Tricolor, or I will come back wrapped in it, but I will be back for sure.