I?m not even sure I?d go into a reformed House of Lords. But let?s put it like this, the decision would have been easier had there been not even complete reform but a substantial stride.

The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.

The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.

I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.

I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.

I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life.

We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.

Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.

The unforgivable political sin is vanity, the killer diet is sour grapes.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.

Twenty times better to err on the person than suspicious of everyone.

Charisma on stage is not necessarily evidence of the Holy Spirit.

Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

In my many trips to South Africa, I have met and spoken to a lot of people there, and they all seem to find apartheid as repellent as you would.

Be more interested than interesting.

I believe that children are our future. Unless we stop them now.

The majority of human conflict comes from people just feeling disrespected.

True friends are never forgotten, they live within our hearts and souls.... forever , and always , dancing on our stage of memories.

I think there are worse things for a teen to be enraptured with than 'Twilight.