“We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.”

There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.

Every time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there. It always seemed irrelevant to me: Does a property gain value just because Alfred Hitchcock used to eat breakfast there?

It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.

Work is the means of living, but it is not living.

Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.

Keep right on to the end of the road, Keep right on to the end. Tho’the way be long let your heart be strong, Keep right on round the bend. T

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.

One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin.

There’s something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.

The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.

Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.

It turns out there’s only one thing that capuchins really, really love – and that’s sweet stuff. If you give them a big vat of say, marshmallow fluff, and you let them go at it.

What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.

The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.

In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.

The SPR is intended to provide relief at times when working families are struggling to make ends meet, and to counter the price shocks that accompany severe supply disruptions. Now is undoubtedly such a time.

Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.

Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.

With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at any time and would achieve nothing.

It is complete nihilism to propose laying down arms in a world where atom bombs are around. It is very simple: there is no way of achieving peace other than with weapons.

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.

TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.