Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Lobbyists are the touts of protected industries.

When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was 'Still?'

Nobody wants to intervene in Russian affairs. Russia is a very large country, a very old country, a very disagreeable country inhabited by immense numbers of ignorant people largely possessed of lethal weapons and in a state of extreme disorder. Also Russia is a long way off.

It was at "Little Lodge" I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced.

There is a place for everyone, man and woman, old and young, hale and halt; service in a thousand forms is open. There is no room now for the dilettante, the weakling, for the shirker, or the sluggard. From the highest to the humblest tasks, all are of equal honor; all have their part to play.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.