Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears prejudices misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.

What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.

If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.

The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.

What treaty is it that finally separates those two territories, the hard resolve of our exteriors and the terrible disaster on our insides?

You don't have to knock anyone off their game to win yours. It doesn’t build you up to tear others down.

The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.

During prom season, I travel around the country with a 20-by-24 camera - which is logistically complicated - and photograph proms. My husband made a film of it.

I think everybody can be beautiful. Anybody can have beauty. It's about how you look at the world, in a way, and how you treat yourself.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

What I'd really like, Dad, is to borrow the car keys.

I think I'd be depressed if everything were nearly all known, but I don't feel any danger of that happening.

The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.

Any conscious, wilful impairment of the body is an affront to God.