What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!

I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and stay there and put words together.

It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.

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

Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.

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