He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.

I built with my own hands ... a large swimming-pool which was filtered to limpidity and could be heated to supplement our fickle sunshine.

Leadership is the intelligent use of power.

Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman.

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.

Vast and fearsome as the human scene has become, personal contact of the right people, in the right places, at the right time, may yet have a potent and valuable part to play in the cause of peace which is in our hearts.

I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.