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“The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.”
Source : C L R James (2001). “The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution”, p.445, Penguin UK
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“Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies.”
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“I was so obsessed with football that you could say I was taking the goal home with me at night. And then one day the system fell apart.”
Source : "'Goalkeepers Need an Element of Insanity'". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Dirk Kurbjuweit, www.spiegel.de. May 15, 2008. 
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“I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.”
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“No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a culture holds that nothing is better than anything else, and that all things are in themselves equally meaningless. Except for the fragments of faith (in progress, in compassion, in conscience, in hope) to which it still clings, illegitimately, such a culture teaches every one of its children that life is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing.”
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“The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!”
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“The business of government is justice.”
Source : Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins
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“I don't always have the stomach muscles I have, and I get cellulite as well like everyone else.”
