"I've benefited greatly from studying many effective people from history. Among those who've influenced me the most are Ronald Reagan, Theodore Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill. Each of the three altered history; each was self-created to a great extent; and each was a great student of history and leadership."

“She is such a scene-stealer. She's got these lashes and big eyes, and when she walks on to the set everybody just says "ooh."”

“If you feel that the Chief of the General Staff talks only rubbish, my place is not here. Better to give me a command at the front where I can be of better use!”

Source : "Field Marshal Von Manstein, a Portrait: The Janus Head" by Marcel Stein, Gwyneth Fairbank, (p. 164), 2007.

“In a better world, I can do anything. I'll be there in a better world. In a better world, they will not laugh at me or look down their nose at me.”

“Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity? Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all? Is the eternal truth man's fighting soul Wherein the Beast ravens in its own avidity?”

Source : 1951 'The Fury of Aerial Bombardment'.

“I can think of no habit, kept up through the years, that binds a married couple more than that of reading good books together. Domestic problems and personal problems are for the time forgotten, and an intellectual intimacy is established that can be maintained in few other ways.”

“Tony Blair will probably get thrown out by his party.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Evangelism is not salesmanship. It is not urging people, pressing them, coercing them, overwhelming them, or subduing them. Evangelism is telling a message. Evangelism is reporting good news.”

“I had to take a bit of a break and fast for a while, but then I found myself very, very hungry when I got back to [song-writing].”

Source : "The sensation of writing is the same for me as taking a pee". Interview with Sarah Rowland, www.esquire.com. November 11, 2014.