Things don't happen to me. I happen to things!

Like a sea-beast fished up from the depths, or a diver too suddenly hoisted, my veins threatened to burst from the fall in pressure. I had great anxiety and no means of relieving it ... And then it was that the Muse of Painting came to my rescue - out of charity and out of chivalry ... - and said, "Are these toys any good to you? They amuse some people."

For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.

No more let us alter or falter or palter. From Malta to Yalta, and Yalta to Malta.

Never run away from anything. Never!

If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore.

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature. I see that a speaker at the week-end said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.