Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

Sometimes it doesn't matter too much what choice you make, as long as you make it quick and stick to it.

Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.

Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a foot into empty air. The instinct of self-preservation. It can destroy a man's efficiency.

It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough.

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.

The lowly have small ambitions, and are satisfied with small indulgences. They need not get fair treatment. They need only think that they do...

The Bloody-Nine opened his mouth, and shrieked out all of his bottomless love and his endless hate in one long wail.

Give Bethod a kick from me, once you have him under your boot.""That I will, unless he gets me under his.""Never easy, kicking upwards.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

Your eyes tell me everything about you.Your words only confirm it.

It is intolerable that the world's religions - founded on the values of love and compassion - should provide a pretext for the expression of hatred and violence.

In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.

God has given us control over one thing in our lives - our thoughts.

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.

Indeed the Idols I have loved so long, have done my credit in this World much wrong; have drowned my Glory in a shallow Cup, and sold my Reputation for a Song.

The more real things get, the more like myths they become.

And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.