Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.

Soothsayers are like that. They see many futures but never their own.

Having a me-too brand is a death sentence.

Happiness is a function of accepting what is.

Everest in his slippers. That's what he was like.

Certainly it is not a democracy.

When you dream too much of the sun, you forget the trees.

May Christ the Savior give peace to Nigeria, where more blood is being shed and too many people are unjustly deprived of their possessions, held as hostages or killed.

Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart -- I know. It is often in mine.