What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?

This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.

If you have let pride get the better of you, then you have already lost, but if you grab pride by the scruff of the neck and ride it like a stallion, then you may have already won.

I thought unicorns were more . . . Fluffy.

Putting up a statue to someone who tried to stop a war is not very, um, statuesque. Of course, if you had butchered five hundred of your own men out of arrogant carelessness, we'd be melting the bronze already.

The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.

… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.