I want to retire at 50. I want to play cricket in the summer and geriatric football in the winter, and sing in the choir.

The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.

The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.

I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.

I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.

I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life.

We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.

Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.

The unforgivable political sin is vanity, the killer diet is sour grapes.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.

Race should be seen in one way, and one way only: on your marks, get set, go!

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema.

Everytime I go to Vegas, I seem to incur some kind of fine.

Travelling so much, sometimes my luggage goes astray. But I can get the right stuff sent to me overnight by a special shipper. No big deal.

I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life.

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

Horror Hotel, as wraith called Shade's house. "Vampires, demons, and werewolves check in... and then they make out, and-

I've never thought intelligence was age-related.

Every ounce of information we can extract from a killer about his mind and methods gives us more ammunition to track the next one.