The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

He who laughs last didn't get the joke.

I’ve always believed writing ads is the second most profitable form of writing. The first is ransom notes…

Immortality is a chancy thing

If you only do what you want to do, you won't get there.

Though everyone may yearn for a tranquil death, the basic instinct to stay alive is a far more powerful force

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

You look good wearing my future.

The unorganized mind will always be restless until its content is reordered.

What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men?

This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.

In the technical realm, we repeatedly enter into a series of social contracts, the terms of which are revealed only after the signing.