The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West.

I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it.

I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well.

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.

The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence largely through conquest, civil strife, or struggles for independence.

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish to know about in a way that they can understand.

There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force

A civilised man is someone who has discovered something more satisfying than combat.

Politics is not about divide the nation in the name of religion/cast but to defend the country & represent it in international forums.

What shell did not feel the sound waves and which bird did not face at least once the wind?

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

Addiction struggle is believing you are separate from love. It took me a long time to glimpse that.

The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.

What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

I never skulk, and lurk only sometimes.

Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.