‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

I think the running game is very important to every offense. Being balanced is extremely important. There’s times where you have to throw the ball. You could be down late in the game, you need to come back; you have to be able to pass it when they know you’re passing it.

It’s in the best interest of the radical left types – best psychological and strategic interest – to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can’t stop marching. Even when they’re turning the hoses on you, you can’t stop.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don’t usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‚easy listening,‘ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

The U.S. military is not war weary. Our military draws strength from confronting our enemies when clear policy objectives are set and we are fully resourced for the fight.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

Many people find the universe confusing – it’s not.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

I have to be seen to be believed.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

It is really funny when people say you’d be obvious for a great villain.

I’m bad at picking heroes.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

I don’t regard myself as a cracking good climber. I’m just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm, and I’m good on ice.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

I like the enemy knowing there are a few guys like me around.

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.