Making mistakes is how you learn.

There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.

The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.

If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians in the Church of England.

We are paying a heavy political price for 20 years in which, as a party, we have played down our criticism of capitalism and soft-peddled our advocacy of socialism

The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.

I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft

The flag of racialism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen.

Take charge of your life and multiply it. Be in control of your life and your time.

Appreciate the things and people in your life while remaining independent of them. Give thanks for them, but realize that they do not complete you. Only you can complete you.

Mr. Right' is usually two or eight men.

I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.

I can not sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.

I don't believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn't been told about it. It's like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn't been told it existed.

The most momentous and far-reaching question ever brought to issue on this continent was: Shall France remain here, or shall she not?

Sometimes it's a short step from banning to burning.

I try to conduct my life with a little levity.

Stereotyping and generating brands around musicians I think contributes to their eventual demise.