World Government is not only possible, it is inevitable; and when it comes, it will appeal to patriotism in its truest sense,in its only sense, the patriotism of humans who love their national heritages so deeply that they wish to preserve them in safety for the common good.
Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?
British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.
There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners.
Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.
A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.
The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops.
Toronto is a kind of New York operated by the Swiss.
American democracy is the inalienable right to sit on your front porch, in your pyjamas, drinking a can of beer and shouting out 'Where else is this possible?' Which doesn't seem to me to be freedom, really.
I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before. After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn.
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.
The older I get, the more people listen to me - even though I say the same as always.
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
When I was small, I would refuse to drink when I ate fish because I thought the fish would reconstitute itself in my stomach
Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox - affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.
If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.
Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous if it masks an empty head.
Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
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