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.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

My law-givers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.

When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.

I want the shuffles and echoes, and a certain mysteriousness... It's so bloody hard to paint.

Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.

Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.

Each day I take time out to study the Bible, no matter where I am. The teachings of the Bible have added a new dimension to my life. It, somehow, makes me whole.

Do they give Pulitzers for tweets yet?

I played almost four hours today, ... Im very, very tired.

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

I'm the first player in history that doesn't want to play defense and still gets in foul trouble.