Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.

There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

I wouldn't have said that Anthony Eden was equipped by nature to deal with the situation in the world today. I would have said that he was portentous, sincere, honest and rather stupid.

The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.

Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experiences that at the time seemed especially desolating and painful with particular satisfaction. Indeed, I can say with complete truthfulness that everything I have learned in my seventy-five years in this world, everything that has truly enhanced and enlightened my existence, has been through affliction and not through happiness, whether pursued or attained

The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.

I'm much too modest a person.