If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.

Sunshine is my quest.

We shape our homes and then our homes shape us.

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Singapore could only be taken after a siege by an army of at least 50,000 men. It is not considered possible that the Japanese would embark on such a mad enterprise.

[My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a good topic - with myself the chief conversationalist.