I'd always been a great fan of George Orwell.

NATO will not become involved in partitioning that country, .. We're not going to engage in an operation that will fix demarcation lines. This is one country, and it will remain one country.

Contraries are cured by contraries.

I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about.

In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.

There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!

The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.