Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.

“The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.” 

There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height.

Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage.

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and know Earth, you may make your victory complete.” 

“If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things.” 

“Be extremely subtle even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.” 

“Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain.” 

“The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.” 

“The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.” 

“To be sensitive, as ideologically defined, requires that one not merely accept but “affirm” other people’s way of life or even “celebrate” diversity in general. Like other demands for “sensitivity,” this demand offers no reason—unless fear of being disapproved, denounced, or harassed is a reason.” 

“No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems—of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.” 

“What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.” 

“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.” 

“We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.” 

“Whenever someone refers to me as someone "who happens to be black," I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.” 

“There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.” 

“December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.”

“Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.”

“You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.”