You'll live. Only the best get killed.

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 speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

Be comforted! If there are people who can't stand to be around you, just remember that darkness hates light and deceit hates truth.

Never has there been a time when men tried so desperately to have fun as they do today.

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.

I knew that I did not want to go to that juvenile diversion program because I had an intuitive sense that it would turn me irrevocably into the kind of character that I was now only rehearsing to be.

Our greatest threats never come from strangers but those closer to us”.

High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

The future is in good hands.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

For good or ill, your habits will make or break you.