A joke is a very serious thing.

I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate.

You create your own universe as you go along. The stronger your imagination, the more variegated your universe. When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.

Those who serve supreme causes must not consider what they can get but what they can give.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'