No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are obliged.

I'd rather take advice from my valet than from the Conservative Party Conference

Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.

Why can't the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle this like good Christians?

Ask with urgency and passion.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

And realize that life is the best thing ever, and that you have no business taking it for granted. Care so deeply about its goodness that you want to spread it around. Take money...and give it to charity. Work in a soup kitchen. Be a Big Brother or Sister...You want to do well, but if you do not do good too, then doing well will never be enough.