If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.' Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, 'Yes, I deserve it.'