Better a broken promise than none at all.

Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.