Politicians cannot alter trends.

She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.

We still tell each other that we are lucky to be alive, when our being alive has almost nothing to do with luck, but with geography, pigmentation, and international exchange rates.

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

If you're good with a knife, you don't need your eyes.

Leftism hides under an intellectual veneer, but underneath it is all emotion

I know how to win. I have been winning. I do win. Even in sports.

Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once.

Integral reality is the world’s transparency, a perceiving of the world as truth: a mutual perceiving and imparting of the truth of the world and of man and of all that transluces both.

I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.

I was never NOT confident about doing scenes without my shirt - and now I'll find any excuse to take my shirt off!