If you asked her (Margaret Thatcher) about Sinai, she would probably think it was the plural for sinus.

As far as the physical miseries go, I am sure I will cope. I lived at Eton in the 1950s and I know all about life in uncomfortable quarters.

If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand.

Breaking a glass in the northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a mark of appreciation or elation.

Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride.

I personally believe a crucial ingredient in rehabilitation is to admit that you completely screwed up.

My heart sobbed a lament that was hard to ignore.

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

When women are economically empowered, the power balance changes in all areas of life.

It is not enough to show people how to live better; there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

I initially thought you were ugly, but then you walked closer to me and I realized you were pretty.

In my personal life I've made a lot of compromises. I don't live comfortably. I've lived out of a suitcase for the last 15 years. I have lived without a dime to my name, for a very long time.

As a teacher, it's a great help to be teaching philosophical systems you don't believe. You can actually do a better job of presenting them if you leave your beliefs at the door.