What is rank if not protection from the consequences which fall upon common men?

Men of honour will always outstay men of undeserved rank.

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

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.

Power is a beautiful thing.

What had, moments ago, appeared a dangerous gambit, now seemed an elegant coup de maître.

History will remember him as a savage, but that's because we write the histories.

There is no greater service than that rendered to one’s nation, no greater glory one can seek than that in the name of one’s people.

The world needs the kind of education by means of which character is formed, strength of the mind is increased and the human intellect is expanded beyond its own limits.

There are trials and mistakes and even wars along the path of marriage.

The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.

Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.

Music keeps you young. Having music in your life keeps you open to things.

It's very hard, when you're a famous person, to "de-famous" your home, but tokens of my fame just felt like a burden for my children. And for me.

I'd like to explain why you fine young men had to be blown apart to defend this mud hole.

Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me.

There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action.

Life without the courage to die is slavery.