I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn't go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar.

I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.

It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.

It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.

My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

The only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.

My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better.

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.

In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

Manage your time and life.

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.

We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings.

How much we like ourselves governs our performance.

Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are a matter of national pride.

Everyday ask God for favor. He can open doors for you that no one else can open.

For me, it's all about being in a tiny room with little windows. It's almost like you have to be in a prison.

I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.

Ultimately what I'll do next is up in the air for me.

Ben Carson also denounced [Donald] Trump's ban all Muslims proposal saying we do not and would not advocate being selective on one's religion.