Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.

Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.

The Holocaust is the most documented tragedy in recorded history. And therefore, later on, if there will be a later on, anyone wishing to know will know where to go for knowledge.

Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.

The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.

Absolute morality leads logically to absolute intolerance.

Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out exactly what happened and restore some of the missing parts.

Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

We must shed the old stereotype of anarchists as bearded bomb throwers furtively stalking about city streets at night.

My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.