“Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.”

“You merely had an affair with me, to be exact, and therefore no right to prevent me from another affair.”

“It is, in a great measure, by raising up and endowing great minds that God secures the advance of human affairs, and the accomplishment of His own plans on earth.”

“Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.”

“The great thing about being a comedian is that it kind of doesn't matter how you look. It's actually a disadvantage to be too good-looking. There's a Darwinian advantage to being funny. If you're a good-looking fella, you can't be bothered to make up jokes.”

“Tonight the small are free from the great and the great protect the small.”

“No one in England has ever wished to prevent the fullest expression of Scottish or Welsh traditions and customs. Indeed, their manifestation is regarded with pleasure and pride by the English people. We have reaped great advantages from this tolerant mood.”

“The sentiment 'everything that is happening is supposed to be happening' can be a cop out that prevents us from becoming conscious and deliberately creating. On the other hand, the obsessive control over our reality that comes with trying to use the law of attraction to our advantage to deliberately create can be nothing more than resistance. It too can prevent us from being conscious.”

“The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.”

“… and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.”