If they succeed, you will not be packed off to some idyllic farm, where you can write bad poetry, we will both be executed.

Men of honour will always outstay men of undeserved rank.

Those who looked with revulsion at the oppressive might of her arms, were obliged to marvel at the egalitarian nature of her social programmes.

Throughout the empire, it was whispered that although the husband waded through mud, the wife walked upon water. She, it was said, was graced with a gentle touch which tamed the most vicious of men.

Things I fear will forever change and we old souls can do little but be swayed by the winds.

Came they, in their droves, one after the other, hundred after hundred, thousand after thousand, engulfing all before them, each line a merciless wave from a boundless sea of bold men.

Power is a beautiful thing.

What had, moments ago, appeared a dangerous gambit, now seemed an elegant coup de maître.

History will remember him as a savage, but that's because we write the histories.

There is no greater service than that rendered to one’s nation, no greater glory one can seek than that in the name of one’s people.

The world needed gentle men to rule if the people were to live in peace, not the warmongers and conniving men she so often witnessed wearing the crimson of the Imperial Council.

I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

Specifically, the part where in the early 19th century America reconstituted the U.S. Marine Corps to battle the Islamic Barbary Pirates, though I don't think that's what Obama meant.

Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.

If you will not rise above the things of this world, they will rise above you.

I have a head for heights it's true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many.

Injustice arises either from precipitation, or indolence, or from a mixture of both. - The rapid and slow are seldom just; the unjust wait either not at all, or wait too long.

War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

Necessity, mother of invention.