To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal. — Peter Ustinov. British actor and humanitarian (1921–2004)
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.