I'm not wild about accepting responsibility without authority. Why should my people be?

Pride is the fuel of human accomplishment.

Enlightenment is something that you've been resisting to happen. It’s not something you have to struggle to make happen. The key is not to get in the way! Just allow it occur.

I'm tired of being what everyone else wants.Tomorrow, I'm going to be what I want for a change.I'm going to be a rainbow.Now that's different!

As I learnt very early in my life in Whitehall the acid test of any political question is: What is the alternative?

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

I never like to be lied to by a girlfriend or agent, and certainly not the president of the United States.

I believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist.

The best way to understand any system is to understand the problem it was invented to solve.

The public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know.

The history of discovery is full of creative serendipity.

Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun.