Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as 'Call Me God') to KCMG ('Kindly Call Me God') to .. the GCMG ('God Calls Me God').

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.

It has been the bankers' destiny ... to find themselves on the dangerous edge of the world, pointing up the contradictions and cross-purposes. They are not often loved for it.

Snobbery - the "pox Britannica"

Don’t just see the vision of what you want. Be the vision of what you want!

It's very difficult to live with religious ideas. I can't compare religion to the movies. I can fuse them.

Game, set, match equals tennis. Set, match, run equals arson.

All of that was very closely researched. I think all we can do with drones is realize they are with us and not bury our heads in the sand about it, we should say, 'Okay, how do we regulate this?'

America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.

If my shirt's off all the time on national TV, with 20 million people watching, I want to look my best.

Each day is an occasion to reinvent ourselves

The dance that happens, between actor and director, is a very delicate thing...it's why people tend to work together on many films over and over.

Sometimes, the best answer is a more interesting question.

God is coming! God is coming! All the element we swim in, this existence, echoes ahead the advent. God is coming! Can't you feel it?