My own attitude to the innumerable injustices of life has always been a philosophical one, especially when they have tended to operate in my favour.

Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they can never forgive being ignored.

It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.

You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don't believe you or think that you're being funny.

Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them.

There are many Welsh who are taciturn, truthful, well formed, open minded, handsome and peaceful, even if no particular individual immediately springs to mind.

Strange how much simple wisdom there is to be found in the deformed head and unprepossessing carcase of your typical London cabbie.

The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They are both absolutely right.

History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.

The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong

We should not scorn those whose fear is greater than our own.

There was a beauty to an elegantly designed circuit board that rivaled anything found in nature.

You wake up and from where are sure that this which read on the pasport is true?? Are you sure??It's possible to be murder, to be a killer or somebody else!

Where do we people go if not towards the perfection of our own illusion?

What's awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That's scary, and they just seem to think it's okay to do it, like you're public property.

My administration doesn’t have any secrets, and from now on, neither will you.

Timely service, like timely gifts, is doubled in value.

The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.

I am the laughter of the new-born child On whose soft-breathing sleep an angel smiled.

I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.