When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.

Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.

I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.

Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

War would end if the dead could return.

I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.

The world was never more unsafe for democracy then it is today.

Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

As he drank more and more, he became inebriated, and began to fashion damaged human beings.

Do not surrender your dreams based on the seasonality, chase them until they become a reality.

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

Everywhere I go, I see young people: Confident, forward looking. I have seen them in Lagos, in Rwanda, in the suburbs of London.

I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.

If we could let go of our faith in money, who knows what we might put in its place?

Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.

Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.