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.

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 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.

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.

I will take a new approach to death, because what is important about death is not the dead. It’s the living. Those of us left behind.

Storytelling is a form of self-disclosure.

And it should be something that only that group of people could've made with everybody invested.

But some people don't appreciate my bossiness.

It's entertaining to watch somebody break my music down or explain what he thinks I was thinking during the process of making these records. Because... he has no idea.

I'm hoping that "South Of Wilshire" will help people to realize that these are places that they should patronize, not avoid.

I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.

Perhaps I don't give the impression that I'm hurting on the track. But that is because I am animated by an interior force which covers my suffering.

General [John] Pope is impulsive and hasty, but energetic, and, what is of most importance, patriotic and sound--perfectly sound.I look for good results.

When I get on a roll with something, it's really hard for me to put it down unfinished.