No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

I am not now That which I have been.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

A person preaches well that lives well.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

Freedom lies in being bold.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Courage is grace under pressure.

A jug fills drop by drop.