The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

It is never possible to guarantee success, it is only possible to deserve it.

The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it.

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the cage door open if the bird is dead!

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.