My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off

If the heart could think it would stop beating.

In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing; but in adversity God is seen, and that is a greater blessing.

And what is it, thought I, after all! It’s only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.

It is not enough to have a light; it must be shared with others! For the darkness to diminish, we must eagerly share the truth!

A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.

In a reality, what we should be doing is having quiet diplomacy with the Russians to convince them that it's in their self-interest to have a more stable Middle East because trade enriches us all.

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and liberty, Ere I was old!

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.