Not badly, considering I was seated between Jesus Christ and Napoleon.

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.

What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.

If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.

The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.

You can't go too wrong with books

Neurons giveth and neurons taketh away.

It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win hold or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in.

War is a contagion.

I'd love to work with Joan Cusack again - I'm obsessed with Joan Cusack.

Stars are holes in the sky from which the light of the infinite shines.

I've never, ever had people being aggressive to me in public or abusing me, and actually quite a lot of men do say to me, 'You're quite good' - though they can't bear to go, 'You're great.'

God is the embodiment of compassion. He watches for a grain of goodness or humility so that He can reward it with tons of grace.

The feeling that dreams show us the real nature of reality is something that's shared by many indigenous groups around the world.

It's a very complicated landscape and I don't think there's one easy answer about it [Edard Snowden movie].