I suppose you can say I became an odd-job man.

Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.

I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I've had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral.

No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.

The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.

The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils.

My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.

Do you really think the IRA would think me a worthwhile target ?

My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.

It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life.

I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.

How can it be that there is such a colossal gap between what we think we know about grief and mourning and what we actually find out when it comes to us?

Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't understand how one gets new laws through.

The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.

Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent.

He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself.

Once you go outside your natural audience, there are tons of people that don't like you.

Sparky Lyle went from Cy Young to Sayonara.

I have no words. Sixteen languages, but no words. -Vishous

You make real progress when somebody is honest enough to say something that's really uncomfortable.

The acting thing is so beyond my control. Acting isn't mine. You're like a tiny piece in this big, corporate mechanism that needs chemistry and divine intervention.