One cannot cross an abyss in two jumps.

Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.

You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.

Do not be afraid of taking a big step-you cannot cross a chasm in two steps.

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

The home front is always underrated by Generals in the field. And yet that is where the Great War was won and lost. The Russian, Bulgarian, Austrian and German home fronts fell to pieces before their armies collapsed.

If you listen to the neverdo's, it's never done.