Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.

One does not arrest Voltaire.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.