In all correspondence, it would be more convenient to use the word "Persia" instead of "Iran," as otherwise dangerous mistakes may easily occur through the similarity of Iran and Iraq....Formal correspondence with the Persian Government should of course be conducted in the form they like.

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.