I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

You can run away from home But you can't run away from your pain I sit here alone There's always someone else to blame.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

My boyfriend loves golf and he is good at it but I am not that great at it. It drives me nuts, but I'm super competitive and I always want to win.

Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.

I just have to be myself, and not worry about everyone looking at me and watching.

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.

On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day.

You have to have an almost boundless reservoir of energy and interest to enter politics because quite often it's thankless and fruitless and you can't accomplish much.

Jesus loves the world, as do I.