I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.

No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.

The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.

No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Death is never an excuse to stop living.

So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.

You can’t fix who you are on your own, but God is in the business of transforming broken girls into beautiful trophies of His grace.

If you wait to figure out everything before starting anything, it'll never happen.

I've seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, there's nothing closer to God than that.

I can get money with my eyes closed

A Word that Breathes Distinctly Has not the Power to Die

My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out.

I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.

That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface.