The pilot, Francis Gary Powers, had been issued a suicide pill, but he was also provided with a parachute and he used it. - Paul Johnson

Bonaparte has had more books written about him than any other individual, with the sole exception of Jesus Christ.

This book is dedicated to the people of America — strong, outspoken, intense in their convictions, sometimes wrong-headed but always generous and brave, with a passion for justice no nation has ever matched.

It is the nature of the Hindu religion to be tolerant and, in its own curious way, permissive. Under the socialist regime of Jawaharlal Nehru and his family successors the state was intolerant, restrictive and grotesquely bureaucratic. That has largely changed (though much bureaucracy remains), and the natural tolerance of the Hindu mind-set has replaced quasi-Marxist rigidity.