The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.

What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.

If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.

The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

If I stop making films, I will die. I can tell myself that one day I will stop living. But I cannot bear the fact that the day will come when I will no longer be making films.

You can always find contradictions and hope, in hopeless circumstances, and a sense of redemption in somebody who makes the same mistake, over and over. So far, so good. That's how I put it.

I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic.

There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is work, hard work.

I would, however, question the implication that there is some novelty in this beyond modalities [of Mikhail Bakunin], which naturally change as institutions change and develop.

In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.

To learn to play seriously is one of the great secrets of spiritual exploration.

Being perceived as a guy is nothing new or complicated to me. It is what it is.

Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is both mind and matter, which can do anything.