Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

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

Ask with urgency and passion.

Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.

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

He [A. J. Balfour] was eminently one of the Cole Porter school of famous men, who only fell to rise again. Picking himself up and brushing himself down became a minor art form, ruefully admired by his contemporaries.

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.