I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.

When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.

In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.

I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.

I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.

Life is full of surprises.

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete.

A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

To see the beauties, mysteries and magics of your existence look at it with intense love, child's wonder and joyful heart.

Direct action is not always the best way. It is a far greater victory to make another see through your eyes than to close theirs forever.

Life goes on, and deadlines arrive, even when it seem the world should stop out of respect for a shattered self-esteem.

Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.

I know my face better than anyone else.

The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled.

Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.

No day is an ordinary day; all days are extraordinary, because life itself is extraordinary!

I did quite enjoy the days when one went for a beer at one's local in Paris and woke up in Corsica.

The key to getting the most from choice is to be choosy about choosing.