"But thy eternal summer shall not fade."

“[Retirement] is a dangerous experiment, and generally ends in either drunkenness or hypochrondriacism.”

“The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.”

“What I enjoy doing is challenging stereotypes of what people believe a Tory must be. You don't have to say every Tory is in it for themselves - it's pathetic caricaturing that has no place in the 21st century, and if we can challenge that stereotype, then great.”

Source : "We're not all ogres". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

“... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.”

Source : Amin Maalouf (2008). “Origins: A Memoir”, p.299, Macmillan

“History does not belong to us; we belong to it.”

Source : Hans Georg Gadamer, J. E. Malpas, Ulrich von Arnswald, Jens Kertscher (2002). “Gadamer's Century: Essays in Honor of Hans-Georg Gadamer”, p.36, MIT Press

“Time can make soft that iron wood.”

“I often say that Arizonans should decide what's best for Arizona.”

“The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail forever.”