Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.

We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than spectators.

The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself.

Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it.

When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks.

Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.

The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.

There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.

At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.

To some people the impossible is impossible.

Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness, and erroneously considers it as a state of higher knowledge.

The Government is making a fool of itself by attributing all terrorism and acts against the government only to one single patriot

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our time.

I don't need to be made to look evil. I can do that on my own.

It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.

Authority is never without hate.

There is a prophetic release that occurs in a church or an individual who fasts continually for forty days.

I shall remember the look in Margot's eyes all my life.

You can chose if you want to be imagined or remembered.

Bad evangelism says: I'm right, you're wrong, and I would love to tell you about it