If a nation wishes, it can have both free elections and slavery.

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.

Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects - themselves.

It's not healthy for a society if the people hate their own government.

Every civilized society must disarm its citizens against each other.

Term limits mean that you don't trust the voters. 'Stop me before I vote again.'

The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating from a primal loneliness.

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers. ... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.

To "bear arms" is, in itself, a military term. One does not bear arms against a rabbit.

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leader and followers.

Thank God for books, for validating your feelings, and letting you know you’re not alone.

Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human i

The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain

I'm not like anyone. I'm me.

Of course we're still having the concert. Don't let a little rain ruin your night.

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

Why wasn't Christopher Columbus able to discover Spain?

I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.

It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.

Push on, friend. You're just one exciting step from the banquet hall of life.