Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.
The cat does not negotiate with the mouse.
The love of power and the power to attract love were not easy to reconcile.
In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.
There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.
One of the things that really bothers me is that Americans don't have any sense of history. The majority of Americans don't have any idea of where we've come from, so they naturally succumb to the kind of cliche version that Ronald Reagan represented.
Four of my children are daughters, and Ive watched them devote themselves to reading books about how little girls learn to become women - how they learn to deal with boys and men, and the different hurdles females have to go over.
I can quote you lots of chapters in verse from the bible that are terrible for women. But you can use the bible to either liberate or subjugate women. And it's the same with the Koran.
The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away.
We don't do everything the same way we always did it. We just don't.
Queen Elizabeth, who said, Not now, I'm on the throne. Never got a dinner!