It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large.

In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.

Hong Kong's people will get what they want, despite China's objections. Freedom invariably wins in the end.

Hong Kong represents the kind of Asia with which both West and East are comfortable... It offers, in that sense, a vision for the future of Asia.

I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by "unbridled" you mean unregulated.

In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.

So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.

I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.

Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.

Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician.

I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.

Nepotism is the lowest and least imaginative form of corruption.

Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.

Dead is the travel of all our travels.

A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.

Every experience, however bitter, has its lesson, and to focus one's attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness.

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

It's better to be silent than to be a fool.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.

Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation.