But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.

A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less.

On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration.

The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.

Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.

I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.

It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.

Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later.

I am a fading phantasmagoria. Time has left me in partial glory.

Sweet and savory, it was the honey of our existence, DNA with the message: This is who I am.

I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer.

I have always paid careful attention to social and economic conflicts, to the dialectic - if we can call it that - between high and low. Maybe it's because I was not born or brought up in affluence.

Fear is the white lipp'd sire Of subterfuge and treachery.

I was not born a size 2. I'm not skinny, period. I'm not willing to sleep with the director or step on somebody else's neck to get the job.

Death is much simpler than birth; it is merely a continuation. Birth is the mystery, not death.

You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.

So many dot-com companies were formulated on air.