The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.

The only solution is to kill 600 people in one night. Let the UN and Bill Clinton and everyone else make a scene - and it is over for 20 years.

There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.

Learn to love and you will learn to live.

Live in the present. Tomorrow is a puzzle you can only solve with the answers you find today.

In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

Today. This bright new day that awaits us

I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.

We have now to fight for peace with the same courage and deter-mination as we fought against aggression.

It's just way more fun making art, growing, grinding for a fan base, and traveling the world with a friend.

When that truth of alien intervention in our planet's affairs and our ongoing contact with an alien culture is finally revealed, it won't be frightening even though it will be a shock.

The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.

There are no rules for felicity.