The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

The sea has formed the English character and the essential England is to be found in those who follow it. From blue waters they have learned mercifulness, and they have also learned - in the grimmest of schools - precision and resolution. The sea endures no makeshifts. If a thing is not exactly right it will be vastly wrong.

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the failures of our neighbors but their successes.

It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.