Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar.

Too much truth Is uncouth.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

You do not know what you can miss before you try.

There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.

Remember how excited you were when you turned five years old. Today, you should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday!

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

I understand that being optimistic in this age is challenging, but I am optimistic nonetheless.

Islam is not a race...Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy.

People have a right to give a speech. And people have a right to protest. But I'm not a great fan of disrupting people's speeches.

Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.

Sometimes it's hard to pick right from wrong. The best thing we can do is go with our heart and hope it all goes well.

We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.