Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to furnish it well.
The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
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.
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.