A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.

I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took seven.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all.

Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

When we run out of money, we have to start thinking.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.