However much I have been blamed for not showing more deferences to a great party, and for not acting more steadily on party principles, all I have to regret is that I showed so much.

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.

The police are the public and the public are the police.

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.

I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct.

Of all the vulgar arts of government, that of solving every difficulty that might arise by thrusting the hand into the public purse is the most illusory and contemptible.

Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget?

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

Let your life blossom like sacred flower.

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

It's been a bit sad to see that out of Linux distributions, it was Android - the most successful mobile Linux distribution - that has really introduced the malware problem to the Linux world.

I wish that people could love more.

I think they got it wrong with Saddam Hussein. They thought he had the A-Bomb. Instead he had a bomb.

My candidacy is a compelling argument for my candidacy. I want to be President.

You can't change people by removing something. You must create a void and then fill it.

I don't think we will find a cure for all cancers in the next 50 years let alone 20. I think it's foolishness to say that.

I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.

And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection.