Nourish your hopes, but do not overlook realities.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.

Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.

He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.