Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.