I think if journalists were responsible for international policy we'd have a nuclear war every week.

There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.

The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.

If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians in the Church of England.

We are paying a heavy political price for 20 years in which, as a party, we have played down our criticism of capitalism and soft-peddled our advocacy of socialism

The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.

I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft

The flag of racialism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen.

Love is not control, Logan. Love is partnership. Friendship. A wise man once said, 'If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Angels only care about what you look like on the inside. A pure heart is the vessel that contains a soul's true beauty.

A broken vessel cannot hold anything within itself, therefore only something supernatural can hold itself within a broken vessel.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

We strain hardest for things which are almost but not quite within our reach.

To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song.

We all do foolish things when we are in love. Don't we, your grace?

It's important that we see clearly with wisdom and awareness, but also take action.

Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry.