All government is an ugly necessity.

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.

The pessimists believe that the cosmos is a clock that is running down; the progressives believe it is a clock that they themselves are winding up. But I happen to believe that the world is what we choose to make it, and that we are what we choose to make ourselves; and that our renascence or our ruin will alike, ultimately and equally, testify with a trumpet to our liberty.- The Illustrated London News, July 10, 1920 Issue.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

I have passed on the very resolute position of my government regarding the necessity of dialogue and a political solution.