Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.

It's all very well to put the government in the hands of the perfect man, but what do you do when the perfect man gets a bellyache?

Seems like the cold would never go away and winter would be like the bottom of my feet but then it is gone in one night and in its place comes the sun so large and laughable.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

When people call me Sir Anthony I just think oh, that's a bit odd. But I'm not cynical about it. Um, I just feel more comfortable being called Tony or Mr. Hopkins, whatever name I'm called.

He that best understands the world, least likes it

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

I hope we will never again see such a depression. But I am troubled by the huge consumer installment debt which hangs over the people of the nation, including our own people.

Why should we break up Our snug and pleasant party? Time was made for slaves, But never for us so hearty.

People tend to pair off that way, Cath thought, in matched sets.

You have to be a soldier and a veteran, or a soldier who sacrificed your life for your country.

If you lie down and let somebody kick you, you're never going to get nowhere. You have to stand up.