If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship.

Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.

No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.

When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country.

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.

You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt

A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence.

We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty. We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.

Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

Life doesn't just happen to you

It's a mind, it works by metaphor.

If you have seen darkness, you will appreciate the dawn of light.

By standing alone, you prove your courage.By standing with others, you prove your love.By standing with truth, you prove your virtue.By standing with God, you prove your faith.

The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.

I refuse to believe that we're only here to live and die.

I really love Norah Jones.

I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.

Our father in heaven governs the affairs of men by placing specific individuals upon the earth to lead at specific times and inspiring and directing them.

The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.