Chess is not a game, but a disease.

We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the aspect of the world's armaments.

Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences.

Personally, I am a great believer in bed, in constantly keeping horizontal...the heart and everything else go slower, and the whole system is refreshed.

Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves.

Liberal politics meant the politics of common-sense.

Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach.

I am half-surprised to find that as I go on I get more and more confirmed in the old advanced Liberal principles, economic, social, and political, with which I entered Parliament 30 years ago.

Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.

Often my creative life has seemed like a long tunnel, dark and damp. And sometimes I wondered whether I could live through it. But I did!

Where liberty is, there is my country.

I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley

I'm somebody who finds adversity is almost as good as encouragement. It's almost like, you close the door, and I'll find ten ways to kick it in and go around it or dig under it or something.

Fun is the main thing. Because fun helps you transmit your message. You can only do that - transmit - when people are receptive.

The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.

If there were no way into God, I would not have lain in the grave of this body so long.

That which does not kill me can only make me stronger.

There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.