Money cannot be converted into houses or trained teachers or hospitals at the touch of a magic wand. There are limitations to our physical and intellectual resources.

I am confident, however old-fashioned this may sound, that funds left in the hands of the public will come into the Exchequer with interest at the time in the future when we need them.

One trouble is that when Government gets into a business it tends to make it uneconomic for anyone else.

A glimmer of light is better than no illumination at all.

I would suggest to my honourable Friend that the foreign investor is at least as discouraged by high national debt for that, as all example shows, is the surest precursor of high taxation.

Revenue has increased in this way is in no small measure, I am convinced, due to our low tax policy which has helped to generate an economic expansion in the face of unfavourable circumstances.

Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.

Love is the answer, the spiritual solution that holds the power to end the war that rages within each of us.

All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work.

I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way.

Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.

You don't blast a heart open," she said. "You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose.

The purpose that you wish to find in life, like a cure you seek, is not going to fall from the sky. ...I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it's not just divinely assigned.

ONCE UPON A TIME when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith.Valentine Michael Smith was as real as taxes but he was a race of one.

Prayer is a grace through which we pour ourselves out before God and through which He calls us into His presence.

Miracles are ceased; and therefore we must needs admit the means, how things are perfected.