Life is a test and this world a place of trial.

Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.

There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that moment finds him either unwilling or unprepared for that which would become his finest hour.

They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.

The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.

I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent and vital, has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened.

Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism.