Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

We hardly need to be reminded that we are living in an age of confusion - a lot of us have traded in our beliefs for bitterness and cynicism or for a heavy package of despair, or even a quivering portion of hysteria. Opinions can be picked up cheap in the market place while such commodities as courage and fortitude and faith are in alarmingly short supply.

I am frightened by the imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for everything; by the absence of a sustained study of the state of the nation.

Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.

I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right....Dead, but right.