Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.

Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.

Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and all that is most base? Or has such excitement? Or more vividly exposes our strengths and weaknesses? Boring? You might as well say that life itself is boring!

I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.

Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.

To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.

The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate.