The ambition of men compels them to break even the most heartfelt vows.

Men of honour will always outstay men of undeserved rank.

Even in peace there is war.

Those who looked with revulsion at the oppressive might of her arms, were obliged to marvel at the egalitarian nature of her social programmes.

Seconds feel like centuries when I am not in your presence.

Throughout the empire, it was whispered that although the husband waded through mud, the wife walked upon water. She, it was said, was graced with a gentle touch which tamed the most vicious of men.

Things I fear will forever change and we old souls can do little but be swayed by the winds.

Came they, in their droves, one after the other, hundred after hundred, thousand after thousand, engulfing all before them, each line a merciless wave from a boundless sea of bold men.

If they succeed, you will not be packed off to some idyllic farm, where you can write bad poetry, we will both be executed.

There are no moral obligations in the game of empire.

Power is a beautiful thing.

Your purpose...should always be to know...the whole that was intended to be known.

There are many things evil people can take from you. However, they can never steal your ability to laugh and laugh loud.

Unless the object of the singer’s affection is a vampire, surely what Hart means is unphotogenic. Only vampires are unphotographable, but affectionate ‘-enic’ rhymes are hard to come by.

Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest – sometimes with extensive borrowing – when and where matters of life and death are at stake.

Most people try to make a better world for our children when what they should be doing is making better children for our world.

Luck is tenacity of purpose.

I'm just a weapon of the god.

We need an angry generation, A generation to plow the horizons

I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.

Joy is increased by spreading it to others.