Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

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

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

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').

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"

Wisdom is the ability to read the unwritten.

Shun darkness and evil vices for they that embrace them wear off with time!

Keep in mind that there are computers, that do touch things up. Like when I got a hold of the poster for 'Gold Diggers, ' I said: 'Hey, wait a minute! Those aren't my teeth!'

Stand up and finish what you started

O, if we could tear aside the vail, and see for but one hour what it signifies to be a soul in the power of an endless life, what a revelation would it be!

Success lies in doing not what others consider to be great but what you consider to be right.

I could never be a member of a single party. I want the best of all worlds, thank you.

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

In the new organisation, power flows from expertise, not position.

The bloom of Monticello is chilled by my solitude.