[The Balkans] produce more history than they can consume.

Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.

Our dog chases people on a bike. We've had to take it off him.

Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.

Well, dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess.

No matter. The dead bird does not leave the nest.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.