Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.
Jan StrutherIt took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.
Jan Strutherthere is practically no difference at all between a family and a nation, except the difference in size. A family is a nation seen through the wrong end of a telescope; a nation is a family seen through the right end of a telescope, and I don't believe it is possible to achieve a happy and successful family life, or a happy and successful national life, unless we bear this simple fact in mind and behave accordingly.
Jan StrutherGiving a party is like having a baby: its conception is more fun than its completion; and once you have begun it, it is almost impossible to stop.
Jan StrutherPhysical weather certainly is beyond our control. ... But human weather - the psychological climate of the world - is not beyond our control. The human race is its own rain and its own sun. It creates its own cyclones and anti-cyclones. The ridges of high pressure which we sometimes enjoy, the troughs of low pressure which we so often endure, are of our own making and nobody else's.
Jan Struther