The United States are a miracle: the division between two states is sometimes a river or a mountain, and sometimes it's a straight line. But nobody says, "That tree really belongs in South Carolina. I shan't do anything about it now, I'll get it back later." I shall go after I am here to London and after that to Potsdam, where Comrade Stalin, Mr Churchill and Harry Truman divided up Europe; and what we see now is the result of that. The Americans would have accepted it. But Europeans don't accept anything.

I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me

As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.

Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.

It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.

I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.

The world was very feminine when I was young. And now it's very masculine.