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

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.

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.

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.

You must do much work to fulfill your dream.

Nothing will ever be solved if we wallow in the darkness of denial.

If it had attempted to strengthen then I still receive, but if that had been repeated to make me give up. So I gave up.

The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect.

In her first passion woman loves her lover In all the others all she loves is love.

There was a typewriter buried alive in that horse, the one I road to get out of the flood.

I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.

Responsibility means to perform our service properly,with proper attitude, behavior and words.

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

I think Oprah's [winfrey] learned from me that it's OK to be harsh on people because in one's harshness you can see transformation happen right before your very eyes.