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

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.

We regard our parties as interesting groups of gladiators.

Lloyd George is a one-eyed fellow in blinkers.

changing your habits is your key to changing your life

True love

(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.

Enlightened teachers are not logical. They don't function from levels that are understandable to the human mind. They're not religious. Religions form around them, usually after they've died.

I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years

A lot of times I talk to people, they say they don't trust the doctors, they don't trust the hospitals and that kind of stuff. Well, if you go to the hospital, you've got to trust somebody.

Everyone gets wounded in this world and everyone has within them some golden qualities that can serve to heal the wounds of time and the traumatic effects of human tragedy.

I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and inhumane.

Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day.

You get all sorts of people in the library, and the librarian gets it all.