I do not believe there is a long-term future for the privately rented sector in its present form.

What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.

As a democratic Socialist profoundly committed to the rule of law, I could not condone, let alone encourage, defiance of the law.

We still retain in Britain a deeper sense of class, a more obvious social stratification, and stronger class resentments, than any of the Scandinavian, Australasian, or North American countries.

I am...wholeheartedly a Galbraith man.

Be grateful. You have enough and abundant life

I’ve been firmly grounded in reality since I was a child, and I’m still waiting for it to impress me.

How beautifully the leaves grow old. How full of light and colour are their last days.

It doesn't take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

The world of derivatives is full of holes that very few people are really aware of. It's like hydrogen and oxygen sitting on the corner waiting for a little flame.

To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself

A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.

The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessity.

There are no trivial assignments in the work of the Lord.