There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained. Having a family guarantees that you have a built in support system, and although that support system may not always be what you want it to be, when it comes down to the wire, your family will love you and stand behind you, no matter what.

In my experience of large enterprises, I have found it is often a mistake to try to settle everything at once.

Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government

This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.

Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear - I fear greatly - the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar, even more loudly, even more widely.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.