Though I never shout at Labour Members or insult them, I can never understand the psychology of some of our men who endeavoured to reason with them.

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

No doubt the Jews aren't a lovable people; I don't care about them myself; but that is not sufficient to explain the Pogrom.

How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.

I believe it is peace for our time.

Armed conflict between nations is a nightmare to me; but if I were convinced that any nation had made up its mind to dominate the world by fear of its force, I should feel that it must be resisted.

It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain that the right will prevail.

Whatever the lengths to which others may go, His Majesty's Government will never resort to the deliberate attack on women and children and other civilians for purposes of mere terrorism.

We would fight not for the political future of a distant city [Danzig], rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.

Taxation is not a method by which the community corporately provides itself with essential services, but a fund to be divided between different interests with political claims upon the state.

Give me the positions and velocities of all the particles in the universe, and I will predict the future.

Meditation alone cannot heal the world, but it can and does speed up the healing process.

But there’s nothing.My life is one big meaningless cycle of nothingness.

This life is only a test' is a counter-productive mindset

My generation must have despair. - Leonard Bernstein Ch 40/Dog Water Free, A Memoir

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves or on whom she simply depends is want of courage.

I also grew to love Nancy Reagan in a certain way. I learned more - certainly I learned more bad stuff that I had known about in greater detail, but I also got a lot of empathy.

I don't want to make myself sound that spontaneous, because I'm not.

There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix.

The priests of one religion never credit the miracles of another religion. Is this because priests instinctively know priests?