Animals we are, and animals we remain, and the path to our regeneration and happiness, if there be such a path, lies through our animal nature.

Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.

If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.

Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.

Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.

I have no such powers. If I did I would be more merciful than God, believe me.

Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence ar

Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.

I exist in the paradise of my mind.

You shut your eyes to keep out the light because the light reminds you that you are alive

For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude.

Magicians guard an empty safe.

Those two principles: We're supposed to love one another and we're supposed to work together to make the experience better. That's all the religion you need, really, to make a success of this planet.

I knew I wanted to do something that wasn't just domestic and endless but I had no idea what and no inkling that it could ever be music.

Your money can be inflated away but your knowledge and talent cannot.