War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.

Edward Gibbon, in his classic work on the fall of the Roman Empire, describes the Roman era's declension as a place where "bizarreness masqueraded as creativity.

It was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline that good soldier should dread his own officers far more than the enemy

Influence is everything. One wrong influence can single handedly destroy every bit of your innocence and innocence is the root of all wisdom.

People with no human values are worse than zombies.

Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.

Nothing really happened - I was elected in '86 - until 1992, and that's when the Anita Hill debacle happened.

Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.

Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance

The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.

I don't really plan. I just see what happens.

Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.

Your subconscious is your best friend