Every man has a mission from God to help his fellow beings.

I am no longer a curmudgeon. I am a curmudgeon emeritus.

Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.

There are no office hours for leaders.

We do not attach any intrinsic value to the Cross; this would be sinful and idolatrous. Our veneration is referred to Him who died upon it.

Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.

A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.

For to keep at the top is harder almost than to get there

A critic is a man who expects miracles.

There are no working hours for leaders.

No great thing comes to any person unless that person has courage.

Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.

The light within us gives power for good actions.

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, then growing in our knowledge of God is always practical.

Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.

The Australian Open attracts one of the most competitive line-ups in the world and I’m looking forward to putting the heat on some of my old on-court rivals.

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy...Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.

I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet.

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.