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

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

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

A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very much good, and almost anything he may say may do a great deal of harm. Anything he says that is not obvious is dangerous; whatever is not trite is risky. He is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

Revolt by all means, but only on one issue at a time. To do more would be to confuse the whips.

There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.