I intend to live forever, or die trying.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others.

If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

[He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot.

Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine.

Every true man sir who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.

Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.

Deed done is well begun.

I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, because I didn’t mean them as much as the other ones.

Perhaps he d always known that the truth of a person lies in the heart.

If you believe in others and give them a positive reputation to uphold, you can help them to become better than they think they are.

In 2004, I went to Israel and gave a speech that resulted in guns and ammunition being given to the South Sudanese rebels, specifically Commanders Athol's and Yaka's armies.

I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters.

When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.