When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.

Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.

America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives.

An iron curtain has descended over Europe.

We are really doing our very best. There are no doubt many mistakes and shortcomings. A lot of things are done none too well. Some things that ought to be done have not yet been done...[But Britain's effort has] justly commanded the wonder and admiration of every friendly nation in the world.

[My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a good topic - with myself the chief conversationalist.

No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living.