Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness;

George Eliot

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

H. L. Mencken

Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.

Horace

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

Katharine Anthony

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

P. G. Wodehouse

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

John F. Kennedy

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

Don DeLillo

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

Tennessee Williams

If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.

Malcolm Turnbull

I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.

Lasse Hallstrom

I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours.

Gunter Grass