The French cook; we open tins.

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Beginnings are always messy.

We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.

I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.

The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .

Love! Beyond measure — beyond death — it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.