The immediate reactions of the two superpower leaders when confronted with the gravest international crisis of their careers were much the same, shock, wounded pride, grim determination, and barely repressed fear.

And even if fairies built a nest in the bottom of my garden and it should turn out that I have to live for a thousand years, there’s not one of them when I’ll be...

Some people come to the edge of the cliff and they look over, then run away in fear. They never realize it’s possible to fly, to soar, to be free. They spend their lives crawling...

His deepest need was that people should like him. An admirable trait that; in a spaniel. Or a whore.

He talked about the future with such certainty, he might have been talking about the past.

Morality, Sir, is the monologue of the unexcited and the unexcitable, the revenge of the unsuccessful, the punishment of those who tried and failed, or who never had the courage to try at all.