No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.

After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.

No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.