We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the aspect of the world's armaments.

Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences.

Personally, I am a great believer in bed, in constantly keeping horizontal...the heart and everything else go slower, and the whole system is refreshed.

Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves.

Liberal politics meant the politics of common-sense.

Chess is not a game, but a disease.

Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach.

I am half-surprised to find that as I go on I get more and more confirmed in the old advanced Liberal principles, economic, social, and political, with which I entered Parliament 30 years ago.

Thanks be to God for his timely provisions.

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

Ciara, there are certain things a man does not ask of a lady.""You are not asking.""Aye.

The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure like the Pasteur serum for rabies.

The more you practice and study, the better you are so I still practice and study all the time.

Be relentless and then you'll break through.

Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.

Sometimes...you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living.

I have never wanted to claim I know what is best for Israel.

Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned knees.