Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.

When I'm in office I always keep Members of Parliament talking. If they stopped they might start thinking.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.