No battle is worth fighting except the last one.

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.

Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.

Maybe love is thinking that every time your partner does or says something mundane that you want to start a Mexican wave from here to Uzbekistan in utter delight.

Teach children the value of work and to work hard at everything they do. The virtue of compassion and value of appreciation of the hard work of others too.

a friend is someone who, when you make a mistake reminds you that you will, forever after, be a kinder person because of it...

My greatest gratitude

I try to avoid Twitter. I occasionally can't resist the siren call of email.

In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.

Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.

I was brought up in Florida, so there isn't much difference between playing there and playing here. The climax are about the same.

Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.