Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

Churchill was fundamentally what the English call unstable - by which they mean anybody who has that touch of genius which is inconvenient in normal times.

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.

We do not intend to part from the Americans and we do not intend to be satellites. I am sure they do not want us to be so. The stronger we are, the better partners we shall be; and I feel certain that as the months pass we shall draw continually closer together with mutual confidence and respect.

To be alive at all involves some risk.

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.