When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.

Today I may way before an awestruck world; I am still master of my fate. I am still captain of my soul.

In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.

We have no lasting friends, no lasting enemies, only lasting interests.

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.