He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the even more refined accomplishments of skipping and skimming.

In politics nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

Why can't the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle this like good Christians?

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.

I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.

I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in fighting him, you cannot help getting a liking for him whether he deserves it or not.

I have done nothing important or distinguished since we met except to win the handicap prize, worth ?4 10/- at North Berwick.

Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.

I tried to find something I already knew about life that might help me reach out and touch my brother and get him to look at me and himself.

When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

I think the Clintons are brilliant. I've never met a person as intelligent as Bill, and I think Hillary is right up there with him. They're too smart for Washington.

If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.

A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.

A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinter legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to see it done at all.

I never want to get to that level of poverty where taking a bath has to be a hot-pot experience.

It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.

Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself