If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

The test of a people is what they can do when they're tired.

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.

What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.

Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.

Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius.

The true guide of life is to do what is right.