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

I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

Leadership is only courage and wisdom, and a great carefulness of self.

There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness.

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