In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Muscles come and go; flab lasts.

It's not what's going to happen, but who's coming.

I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.

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

We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream.

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