Lloyd George is a one-eyed fellow in blinkers.

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.

Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.

A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life.

Lord Randolph Churchill was the chief mourner at his own protracted funeral.

We regard our parties as interesting groups of gladiators.

I didn't want to escape my life and become a big actress and live my dreams. That was never the way it was it was just these amazing opportunities that happened.

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

The cemetery is full of people who thought they could change themselves tomorrow.

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.

We can't see ahead of time what actions are going to be the ones that move history in dramatic ways.

You can't grow if you're constantly defined by this collection of frozen moments that you keep returning to. And if you can't grow, you're not alive.

I am proud to be a Southerner. I think Southern hospitality is very... I don't think it's just a term. I think it really exists. You can come to Savannah, and the people are so sweet and so nice.

Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned.

My smile faded, and I suddenly felt confused. My heart leapt in my chest. "Why would you do that for me?" "What wouldn't I do for you?

Democracy is a gleaming Excalibur - let's not use it just to mend the toaster.