When all is said, its atmosphere [England's] still contains fewer germs of aggression and brutality per cubic foot in a crowded bus, pub or queue than in any other country in which I have lived

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

The jester is brother to the sage.

One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science allows us to glimpse [only] fragments of reality.

At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old.

When the flag is unfurled all reason is in the trumpet.

In the end, I've found, people like the direct approach. It's much more valuable to them to have a leader who's absolutely clear and open than to have one who soft-soaps or talks in circles.

What the media wants and what the media demands of Christians is very simply this: your silence.

It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

Sometimes, when you get a girl pregnant, you blame the condom. His condom broke that night.

So be it. I’m happy to bring the country together.

That's been my fear all along. That I'm not enough, and I still don't trust at all that I am.

Opposing taxes is a key conservative value.