The cabinet has no propositions to make, but orders to give.

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.

My heart was on the verge, if not of explosion than of collapse, hurtling to an inward oblivion, sucking down with it the very ground I stood on.

God can bless you wherever you are.

When you get the red letters right, it all makes sense.

It's not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.

If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.

The key to success is to be true to who you really are.

Do not carry with you your mistakes. Do not carry your cares. Travel on alone. Like an elephant in the forest.

I hate to lend a book I love...it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.

I never had any desire to become a well-known actress.

I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases.