The work of a Prime Minister is the loneliest job in the world.

Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.

I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.

Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

War would end if the dead could return.

I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.

The world was never more unsafe for democracy then it is today.

Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

To profoundly understand a baby, you must first be a mother.

You can get what you want or you can just get old.

[Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons

Great faith it needs, according to my view, To trust in that which never could be true.

You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time

Economics was the only profession where a person could be considered an expert without having once been right.

In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime.

Synchronicity...means a 'meaningful coincidence' of outer and inner events that are not themselves causally connected. The emphasis lies on the word 'meaningful'.

If you get frustrated and unhappy with yourself, then there is going to be a problem. You have to laugh at yourself and laugh at your mechanism that is out of gear.