Like the Roman, I seem to see the river Tiber foaming with much blood.

As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood.

In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.

A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea.

Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price.

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles.

The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

My journey in life, my footprints in the world.

A person’s voice can have such a powerful experience on the listener, very different from looking at the words on the page.

Best to have only a few absolutely perfect trait - for example, my hair and eyes and sparkling personality - so you don't overwhelm.

We have forty million reasons for failure but not a single excuse.

Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.

We believe that by removing a crippling debt burden we'll help millions of Africans improve their lives and grow their economies.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

Blessed be God, I not only begin praying when I kneel down, but I do not leave off praying when I rise up.

The hardware and the software used in the Breakthrough project will be compatible with other telescopes around the world, so they too can search for intelligent life.