How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.

Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.

The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.