True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
To try to be better is to be better.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
My head rang like a gong.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.