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

I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.

Old politicians, like old actors, revive in the limelight. The vacancy which afflicts them in private momentarily lifts when, oncemore, they feel the eyes of an audience upon them. Their old passion for holding the centre of the stage guides their uncertain footsteps to where the footlights shine, and summons up a wintry smile when the curtain rises.

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

Secrecy is as essential to intelligence as vestments and incense to a Mass or darkness to a spiritualist séance and must at all times be maintained, quite irrespective of whether or not it serves any purpose.

The price you pay for being powerful and being rich is to be hated.

There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory.