Nothing is uncontroversial anymore, and very little is innocent.

War is always a professional enterprise; despair is left to amateurs.

Agitation and commitment are dangerous for the peace of humanity, and the only thing which is even more dangerous is their absence.

The Queen Elizabeth II provides vast amounts of entertainment for an age that has forgotten how to amuse itself unaided.

This is a tragic world we live in.

Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment producers don't want to spend money on orchestra.

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

I was never a liberal. I was radical. I was cynical. I was negative. But, I was never a liberal. I always saw that as too lukewarm for me.

In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.

Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he is a ranter.

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

Part of the reason some Japanese companies have underperformed financially was corporate governance and board structures.

My foot, for a football player, is very beautiful!

It's semi-frustrating when your name actually becomes a synonym for douchebag.

Men don't hear women.