The fact is that Margaret Thatcher was never really a Conservative.

One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer luck, good or ill.

It often happens that people come to believe in their own fictions.

Justice in politics has an uncomfortable habit of being rough.

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

I have both English bulldog determination and Bengal tiger strength.

I always want to bring emotion across in a straightforward way. I don't want to get histrionic when I'm singing. For me that's just not interesting; it goes too far down one road.

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.

Life is beautiful. He who reads that As in the window of some distant, speeding train Knows what he wants, and what will befall.

The parents used to drag the little ones, and now the kids are coming--and they're not little anymore. Things are evolving. Maybe there's a renaissance for our music.

He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people breathing.

Children are all foreigners.

Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.