A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared to sink their money into risky ventures.

Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.

A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.

Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

In the last generation, with public Christianity in headlong retreat, we have caught our first, distant view of a de-Christianized world , and it is not encouraging.

The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.

To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.

An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try.

I don't have the courage not to write all the time.

I wash my face every night with Ivory soap, and I don't wear much makeup.

Going hungry never bothered me - it was having no clothes.

It had become boring to write: 'I like Clare Balding'. To say: 'I don't like Clare Balding' is much more newsworthy.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Back in the day after I won my first pageant there was an agency that was getting me work on the side.

Preacher is an instrument of compassion, not an instrument of wrath.

Revolutions never go backward.

This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.