I cannot think of a greater blessing than to die in one's own bed, without warning or discomfort, on the last page of a new book that we most wanted to read.

It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.

Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.

Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.

The biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It's easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into an orgy. It's less easy to say you like eating toast and watching QI.

I went to the Senate, accomplished nothing as usual.

[Donald Trump] would give wealthy families 30 cents or 40 cents on the dollar for their nannies, and little or nothing for millions of hardworking families trying to afford child care.

I've always been taught to completely ignore the camera.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.

I wasn't born with enough middle fingers

The point is, you can't keep doing the same thing and expect it to keep working.

Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.