Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

We’re pieces on a chessboard and we make our moves when it’s our turn. If we don’t, our decisions are made for us.

The real battlefield is the realm of ideas.

All great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving.

What a day may bring a day may take away.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated.

The idea of imposing peace from the outside doesn't work.

It's all make believe, isn't it?

Being a first-rounder is a dream. You want to be mentioned as a first-rounder, the best of the best.

Politicians are simply reflections of the public.