World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings.

Many of us in the West have come to feel that the development of technology in the military and economic fields has produced a single world in which the central problems, both military and economic, are going to require co-operation rather than continued confrontation and competition.

If you’re in a hole, stop digging.

It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.

I've got a happy marriage, which is the most important singular thing.

Being attacked by him is like being savaged by a dead sheep.

Karl Marx himself preferred a glass of claret to the mug of tea affected by some of his recent converts.