Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses to use it irrationally.

If you have a certain point of view and reasons that you think are valid, then whether it's pro or anti, you can only and should only express those views you honestly hold.

The momentum of all those wheels are too great for one person's passionate will.

When we think, we hurt. When we feel, we heal.

You will face yourself again in a moment of terror and will learn once again that old lesson you keep forgetting: that you can escape from anywhere, but you cannot flee your own self.

Some empirical feelings, such as sympathy, are indispensable parts of certain moral virtues.

The price of success must be paid in full, in advance.

You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.

Leadership is about falling in love with the people you serve and the people falling in love with you.

Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]

I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.