It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.
When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something.
The first time you meet Winston [Churchill] you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend in discovering his virtues.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Our human resources, as marshalled by the will, were not sufficient; they failed utterly.... Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all our activities.
He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
Courage - fear that has said its prayers.
I'm so happy to be rich, I'm willing to take all the consequences.
Religious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above us, but it must arise from that which is within us.
The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize it when it comes along.
God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.
Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.
When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man.
Ottawa is a city where nobody lives, though some of us may die there.
Shared laughter is like throwing open the shutters in a gloomy room and letting in fresh air and sunshine.
She's too young for Medicare and too old for me to care.
The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.
Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.
Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.