Industrial societies can only be run successfully by dictators or oligarchs.

Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.

If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.

Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.

Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.

Impossible things are really rough to do, you know.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

When you're composing for somebody, that means you have a boss. You have to do what it takes to, at the end of the day, appease them.

Mind your till, and till your mind.

Oh, for the wonder that bubbles into my soul.

It doesn't matter what your work really is. It is exciting to do well at something. It empowers you.

Five parts of my brain contain alien power, whatever I do or say cannot be denied on the intergalactic highway of existence.

Life isn't about milestones, it's about moment

Taking constructive criticism from others is required to get to the next level.