Publish and be dammed.

An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.

As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.'

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

Publish and be dammed.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

There is nothing so dreadful as a great victory except a great defeat.

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

Catsuits were big for me in the '90s, and I had many of them. Even catsuits with shorts in them.

The crisis of the 1930s and the populist reactions of that time must not be forgotten.

Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

Courage is looking fear right in the eye and saying, Get the hell out of my way, I've got things to do.

When I was very young - around the age of nine - my family used to go to a house in Somerset that my stepfather rented every summer. There was fishing, lakes and riding.

Doing five-minute sets on 'Conan' and things like that are fun and a great way to introduce yourself, but it's such a constricting time, and you usually have to cut bits down.

There can't be a practical reason for believing something that is not true.

I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it seems now looking back on it, A war! That should liven things up a bit!

I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.

Articles themselves are condensed to narrow columns of text across 5, 6, 7 pages, and ads that are really distracting for the reader, so it's not a pleasant experience to 'curl up' with a good website.

I think there are a lot of outside interests that would like to see Sarah Palin in some form of elected office. Most in Alaska recognize our former governor is really not involved in or engaged in the state anymore, that she's moved to other interests.

My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.

It's hard to come across someone who can look past an artist who is larger and just see them for the talent they are and have them be willing to invest what's necessary to make them a star.

I'd be willing to do anything. I'm not precious. I'd wash dishes.

To make a full-blooded puff pastry, you need time, you need patience, and you need precision. It's all about the lamination: it's all about building up the layers of butter, dough, butter, dough; as the butter melts, it creates steam, and that brings up the layers of the two doughs apart from each other, and that's what gives it the rise.

It's not the moment yet for me to enjoy my time as an actor, and as the time goes by, I feel that I need to push myself harder to pay back for all the good fortune that I have received.

I have a lot of respect for what I do, for this profession.

I always said when I was younger that I want to wrestle until I'm 40 or even in the 50s as long as I can still keep doing the same style of wrestling that I do.

My parents are both huge science-fiction and fantasy fans - I was fed it.

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

Our best theory of describing space at a fundamental level is probably string theory.

Other than the fact that I like a country house, I can't think of anything I'd want to spend my money on.