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.

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

From behind a wooden crate we saw a long black-muzzled nose poking round at us. We took him out-soft, wobbly, tearful; set him down on his four, as yet not quite simultaneous legs, and regarded him. He wandered a little round our legs, neither wagging his tail nor licking at our hands; then he looked up, and my companion said: "He's an angel!"

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.

It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.

Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.