Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

It is simply that America is very rich and very powerful and generally speaking everybody hates the rich and the powerful.

For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die

I believe that the visit of the Queen to the United States is an admirable occasion to produce an historical, truthful, sincere, genuine analysis of how the British Monarchy evolved into its present situation.

A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.

In his own lifetime Jesus made no impact on history. This is something that I cannot but regard as a special dispensation on God's part, and, I like to think, yet another example of the ironical humour which informs so many of His purposes. To me, it seems highly appropriate that the most important figure in all history should thus escape the notice of memoirists, diarists, commentators, all the tribe of chroniclers who even then existed