"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'"

"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

"It is a steadfast truth that the stoutest timber is forged in the fiercest gales, not in the sheltered grove."

"It's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes - it's been something that people have always talked about."

"It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind."

"The true measure of a man is the echo of our deeds ripples through eternity."