I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
If it weren’t for painting, I wouldn’t live; I couldn’t bear the extra strain of things.
It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion’s heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.
I never worry about action, but only inaction.
My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
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