The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.

I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.

... people who don't want something are less likely to get it than people who do want something.

She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.

I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented . . .

Don't judge people by their religious, cultural, or professional background. Judge if you must, by their behavior with other people.

The fool hath said in his heart There is no God.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

When I was in Downing Street, David Cameron saw me and said, "Please, shout it all around and let it penetrate to my cabinet meeting." So I bellowed: "Gordon's alive!"

But you have to have a vision of what kind of military you are trying to build in order to get the [budget] cuts to make sense.

I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll

I always want to be growing in my craft. Any artist should - whether you paint, whether you do music or film - always grow and study.

An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

On the last day, Chelsea made a great proposal and I accepted.

I'm not convinced that Jesus only lives in Christians.