Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.

Be not over solicitous about education. It may be able to do much, but it does not do as much as expected from it. It may mould and direct the character, but it rarely alters it.

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it.

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

It doesn't matter what we say , so long as we all say the same thing.

It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.

What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass.

While I cannot be regarded as a pillar, I must be regarded as a buttress of the church, because I support it from outside.

I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.

What I like about the Order of the Garter is that there is no damned merit about it.

A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.

Pain and guilt tore through him. His soul was bleeding to death. He stood there, waiting to die. How could he not? But such wounds were not fatal.

The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.

If there's anything that is the center of my career both creatively and emotionally, it's the Olympics.

Growing up, I was in love with Jennifer Aniston from Friends.

The essence of leadership is making up your own mind and then being able to take other people with you.

The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

In my experience of vegan food it tends to be a symphony of beige.

Blue was a fanciful, but sensible thing. Like a platypus, or one of those sandwiches that had been cut into circles for a fancy tea party.

Life is unfair but remember sometimes it is unfair in your favour.

Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. I rejoice that things are as they are.