The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

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.

I think Jeremiah is for our times. But whether the church in the west will listen to the Word of God today any more than in the chaos of 7th century BC middle east... Only God knows.

I asked my mother I said, "You divorced my dad, how did you decide? She said, "I decided twelve years before he knew it." I was like wow; I'm learning something new every day.

I want to be honest, and even if that's scary, I know it's worth it.

Chess is and will always be a game of chance.

A well-understood and testable hypothesis like sexual selection surely trumps an untestable appeal to the inscrutable caprices of a creator.

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.

Though we be active in the battle, if we are not fighting where the battle is the hottest, we are traitors to the cause.

To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.