Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

I'm not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people.

Diane Kruger

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Sir Winston Churchill, November

Ive said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

Harry S Truman

Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.

Juvenal

There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

Alan Paton

What these people were trying to create or re-create here in this new world is beyond me. I can't put myself in their minds or their hearts, but I can sympathize with their struggle for an identity, with their puzzlement, which has troubled Americans from the very beginning - Who are we, where do we fit in, where are we going?

Nelson Demille

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

Samuel Butler

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

Max Beerbohm

For me, London is and always will be home.

Clive Owen

Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance.

English Proverb

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Richard Marcinko