When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.

I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

David Irving is not just a Fascist historian. He is also a great historian of Fascism.

I wake up every morning and say to myself, Well, I'm still in New York. Thank you, God.

I try not to get personally involved in social media. It kind of makes me sick sometimes.

I had always assumed the weekend was a holy tradition, respected by good people everywhere. Not so at Wexford.

We had this scene where I'm supposed to be bending over to get something. I thought it was kind of cute.

How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.