"Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age."

"This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect."

"When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything."

"When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept."

"If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions."

"To live with purpose is to leave the world a little gentler than you found it. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services."

"War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle."