Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself.

To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness.

Danger, if met head on, can be nearly halved

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.

In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.

It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.