My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.

Unemployment is bigger than a political party. It is a national danger and a national scandal.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

Free milk will be provided in Hoxton and Shoredith, in Eton and Harrow. What more social equality can you have than that?

Tell the Government, our people shall not starve.

I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.

Me: "All right, but you said we had to put emotion into our art. I don't know what that means. I don't know what I'm supposed to feel.

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.

I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

I don't think I was ever...trying to kill myself but I knew that if I'd ever gone too far...I wouldn't care.

Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance.

Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.

The only reason a warrior is alive is to fight, and the only reason a warrior fights is to win

In fact, a child is not even considered a human being.

Who's gonna love you when your looks are gone?

I was the world in which I walked.