Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach.

We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the aspect of the world's armaments.

Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences.

Personally, I am a great believer in bed, in constantly keeping horizontal...the heart and everything else go slower, and the whole system is refreshed.

Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves.

Liberal politics meant the politics of common-sense.

Chess is not a game, but a disease.

I am half-surprised to find that as I go on I get more and more confirmed in the old advanced Liberal principles, economic, social, and political, with which I entered Parliament 30 years ago.

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

God was inviting me to go on Hajj, but before that I needed to settle my debts. Muslims may only embark on their pilgrimage if they are debt-free or at least have made an arrangement for repayment.

We applaud patience, but prefer it to be a virtue that others possess.

We don't need inspiration to do something, we just need interest.

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

Anybody's best pitch is the one the batters ain't hitting that day.

I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.

My hair is my identity.

Everything is divisible. And so is this colossus of U.S. imperialism. It can be split up and defeated.

Besides, I've been feeling a little blue — just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker.