Long experience has told me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette.

I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

The more the planners, the worse the plans.

Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

Anthony's father was a mad baronet and his mother a very beautiful woman. That's Anthony-half mad baronet, half beautiful woman.

Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

It’s not that I’ve been invited to the hole I’m standing in. It’s that I accepted the invitation.

When words have vanished, when daily habits have extinguished emotional exchange, only killing silence remains and indifference takes over. ( "Words had disappeared" )

To dream of a magical world is one thing. To be told it exists is quite another.

Those who complain most are most to be complained of.

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

The shadow of crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is strong.

I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he'll become.

It seem like everybody dress tight now, And I just want my credit.

A single collective directed thought is all it takes to change the world.

Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet