"Time is the most impartial judge; it reveals all pretenses and rewards all patience. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."

"A steadfast commander remains calm when the storm rages fiercest. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"In the quiet sanctuary of self-reflection, the soul finds its rhythm. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a subtle truth that the river of time washes away kings and empires, leaving only virtue intact."

"Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him."

"When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics."

"What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'"

"America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."