Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.

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.

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

90% of what we did the Press didn't know about, and 90% of what they did know about they got wrong.

I am MacWonder one moment and MacBlunder the next.

To be alive at all involves some risk.

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.