I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

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.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

Thought is free.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

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

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.