Carl von Clausewitz

Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

Live Below the Line raises real money to help the world's poorest people, but it is also a symbolic demonstration aimed at highlighting - not replicating - the plight of the world's poor.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.