I've got a happy marriage, which is the most important singular thing.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings.

I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's a blowlamp.

It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.

Unless you understand the history of a situation, you can't ever hope to solve problems.

Being attacked by him is like being savaged by a dead sheep.

Squeeze property speculators until the pips squeak.

Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life.

If you’re in a hole, stop digging.

The right hon. Gentleman will be known for ever as the only Chancellor in the post-war period who brought this country to the brink of bankruptcy.

We grow from our dreams.

Luck is not chance it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Modularize, don't customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.

And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.

But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.

Talent is one thing, it is how you nurture and develop it, and never walk away from it. You can be rich, successful, you win awards, but it can always be better.

People in China say: 'If you love your children, send them to New York. If you hate your children, also send them to New York.

After being in Harry Potter, I believe a bit more in magic than I did before.

If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.