Power politics is the diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

A deck of cards was built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it and a lackey to those above it.

We must conquer war or war will conquer us.

God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.

The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.

I had always been fascinated by the bizarre world of cards. It was a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments were meted out immediately.

Politics. The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.

We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experienced in the course of our existence.

Free men are the strongest men.

Good design is thorough, down to the last detail.

As spirits we have always existed in a generalized form, since we are all part of the universe. As individual spirits, we have existed for a timeless time.

Look, Mother, I am never going to be thin. I'm Norwegian. If you wanted a thin daughter, you should not have married a man whose female ancestors carried cows home from the pasture

Five qualities there are wine's praise advancing; Strong, beautiful, fragrant, cool and dancing.

A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories!

In actual fact, I have been an academic - a college and university teacher and scholar - for much of the last 45 years, and only rarely a writer.

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.