Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace.

In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.

There comes a special moment in everyone's life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill his mission - a mission for which he is uniquely qualified. In that moment, he will find greatness. It is his finest hour.

Well, dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess.

I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.