It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of ludicrous clothing...When he was supposed to be starting a militaristic revolution he was wearing evening dress and an ill-fitting black tailcoat...and his army medals.

IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.

The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.