The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.