The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.

Russian may seem narrow-minded, impudent, or even stupid people, but can only pray for those who are against them.

It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

Never, never, never give up.

I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le.

We build dwellings and thereafter they build us.

Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.