Kindness suits you." "Really? I think I'm quite allergic to it.

We're not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.' --Skulduggery Pleasant

Doors are for people with no imagination.

I love you all, even those I don’t particularly like. That’s you, Beryl.

I'm sophisticated, charming, suave, and debonair, Professor. But I have never claimed to be civilized.

The Baron, unfortunately, turns it all the way up to eleven." "Seriously? Because, you know, that's one more evil

Well, for future reference, this is my serious face.

Plans are invitation to disappointment.

I'm placing you under arrest for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and, I don't know, possibly littering.

Are you sulking?” “Me? No. I don’t sulk.” “You sound like you’re sulking.” “I’m just waiting for the violent urges to subside.

Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies.

It does not matter how long it takes. God will fulfil the promises.

You will see by this that no man should be judged by another here in this life, for the good or evil he has done. Deeds may be properly judged, whether they are good or bad, but not men.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

I would like to bury all the hating eyes under the sand somewhere.

Bad news should be followed with soup. Then a nap.

If you've got good chemistry at the top, it's an enormous help. It's easy to have good chemistry with some, not so easy with others. With [Robert Mugabe], for example.

Because he is a living divinity, when he acts, the universe acts.

As I have said so often before, the long memory is the most radical idea in America...

I wanted to continue to be active on those things that I cared about when I was president where I could still have an impact.