“War would end if the dead could return.”

“I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.”

“A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.”

“The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly that the enemy if you want to save yourselves.”

“You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.”

“Then comes Winston with his hundred horsepower mind and what can I do?”

“We must seize every opportunity we can to speak the truth and proclaim peace. Especially now. There's so little time for many.”

“Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait ...”

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”

“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”

“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives deligh...”

“That which never attains a state of non-principle [non-truth] is known as the principle.”

“Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.”

“Principles become modified in practise by facts.”