I am confident, however old-fashioned this may sound, that funds left in the hands of the public will come into the Exchequer with interest at the time in the future when we need them.

One trouble is that when Government gets into a business it tends to make it uneconomic for anyone else.

A glimmer of light is better than no illumination at all.

Money cannot be converted into houses or trained teachers or hospitals at the touch of a magic wand. There are limitations to our physical and intellectual resources.

I would suggest to my honourable Friend that the foreign investor is at least as discouraged by high national debt for that, as all example shows, is the surest precursor of high taxation.

Revenue has increased in this way is in no small measure, I am convinced, due to our low tax policy which has helped to generate an economic expansion in the face of unfavourable circumstances.

Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.

I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.

I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like me.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.

The sooner you learn that life is not fair, the better off you'll be.

For some of us life is so fantastic we can't stand it.

Formula 1 is a huge international phenomenon even if an otherwise car racing obsessed American public has always found Formula 1 to be a little weird.

We don't need more stuff, we need more humanity.

It's real difficult to save when you don't have any money.