Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences.

We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the aspect of the world's armaments.

Personally, I am a great believer in bed, in constantly keeping horizontal...the heart and everything else go slower, and the whole system is refreshed.

Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves.

Liberal politics meant the politics of common-sense.

Chess is not a game, but a disease.

Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach.

I am half-surprised to find that as I go on I get more and more confirmed in the old advanced Liberal principles, economic, social, and political, with which I entered Parliament 30 years ago.

He said that we belonged together because he was born with a flower and I was born with a butterfly and that flowers and butterflies need each other for survival.

Failure could bring the best opportunity to start the most wonderful life.

Personal value is the kind of value we receive from being active instead of passive, creative instead of consumptive.

Sometimes silence is not an indicator of not caring, but a way to give time and space to the one who is hurting. Only judge when time passes and the void widens such that the chasm cannot be bridged.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?

I take a benign view of digital connectedness. I notice in most young people's lives, Facebook and such doesn't replace normal dating or hanging out, it just facilitates it.

There was an inquiry just last week about the new Bette Midler show, and I just didn't want to do that.

The talent of making friends is not equal to the talent of doing without them.

It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaler as I grew older, train included. Now it's so small it fits in my head.