A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.

I believe that the BBC, in spite of the stupidity of its foreign propaganda and the unbearable voices of its announcers, is very truthful. It is generally regarded here as more reliable than the press.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Man's greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person's writing.

they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!

While the game of deadlocks and bottle-necks goes on, another more serious game is also being played. It is governed by two axioms. One is that there can be no peace without a general surrender of sovereignty: the other is that no country capable of defending its sovereignty ever surrenders it. If one keeps these axioms in mind one can generally see the relevant facts in international affairs through the smoke-screen with which the newspapers surround them.