No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.

All I have is a voice.

The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.

Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.