Responding to the question "If Mr. Stalin dies, what will be the effect on international affairs?" That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette.

I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

The more the planners, the worse the plans.

Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

Anthony's father was a mad baronet and his mother a very beautiful woman. That's Anthony-half mad baronet, half beautiful woman.

Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

I don't compare life to anything. Life can't be defined or compared, I just know that it dresses itself as a murderer in the end.

Hell isn't having no choice.It's having to make a choice between horrific things.

I had a terrible fight with my wife on New Year's Eve. She called me a procrastinator. So I finished addressing the Christmas cards and left.

Life is one heck of an invention. It is better than the iPhone 4S and Coke Zero combined.

I have weird aspirations. Like, I really want to kick a pigeon.

When you get in the pocket, there is a place where the music begins to play itself. When you can find that spot, it's the best feeling in the world.

The greatest threat to your ministry, dear brothers, is that you lose your joy in God.

The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.

I project a definite innocence. A lot of that is just the way I grew up.

I can be very drunk in a club in Oxford on a Monday night and some guy comes up to you and buys you a drink and says that the last record you made changed his life. That means something.