You must sleep sometime between lunch and dinner, and no halfway measures. Take off your clothes and get into bed. That's what I always do.

Do what you like, but like what you do.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.

I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if possible get a pillar between me and the train. I don't like to stand by the side of a ship and look down into the water. A second's action would end everything. A few drops of desperation.

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.