Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no good son has been ruined through the acquisition of horses. Unless they fell and broke their neck, which when taken at the gallop is a very good death to die.

Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Hess or no Hess, I'm going to watch the Marx Brothers.

We shape our homes and then our homes shape us.

It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.

The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it. Theres another Chinese saying about their country which is much more modernit dates only from the fourth century. This is the saying: The tail of China is large and will not be wagged. I like that one. The British democracy approves the principles of movable party heads and unwaggable national tails. It is due to the working of these important forces that I have the honour to be addressing you at this moment.