It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience.

We shape our homes and then our homes shape us.

One can usually put one's thoughts better in one's own words.

When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was 'Still?'

Praise the humanities, my boy. That'll make them think you're broadminded!

The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.