I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay.

Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

A week is a long time in politics.

If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.

I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase 'freedom of the press' used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial press is not free at all.

I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat.

Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.

Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

Every piece of art has a buyer. Only Time decides when the right buyer will see it.

The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society.

Xenophobia is fairly widespread in Russia.

Slowly you become your own man.

He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.

I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life.

It's not imperative that I graduate in four years, and it's not imperative that I get all A's.

It is nerve-wracking watching my kids' games.

How old are you?" asked Door. Richard was pleased she had asked; he would never have dared. "As old as my tongue," said Hunter, primly, "and a little older than my teeth.

With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.