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

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.

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

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.

To some people the impossible is impossible.

At the same time, we held back. Because she was different. Different. We had no one to compare her to, no one to measure her against.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

I've had a lot of movies that didn't get great numbers on test screening, but a lot of times the film was able to survive, or the studio still stayed and supported it.

That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

I don't wish to brag, but I'm very intelligent.

Woo the muse of the odd.

Road's in front o' me, Nothin' to do but walk.

I have a "Do Not Disturb" sign on my hotel door. It's time to go to "Don't Disturb". It's been "Do Not" for too long. We should embrace the contraction.

I met Jason Donovan at RAK studios. He had jodphurs on and small riding boots as he jumped out of the cab. He looked just like me!

There are millions of ways to not be writing. You say you're not in the mood, you'll pick it up tomorrow.