Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime and departing leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

If you join government calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave and be something else.

Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves even if it means chaos and confusion.

Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.

Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking you would have no government.

Do not think of your faults still less of other's faults look for what is good and strong and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.

Live fast die young and leave a good looking corpse.

We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done and leave out the bad ones you did do well that's Memoirs.