Political genius consists in identifying oneself with a principle.

If there is writing on Hadrian's Wall, it reads that the English should leave Scotland to its own devices.

The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life.

In England, even the poorest of people believe that they have rights; that is very different from what satisfies the poor in other lands.

Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad.

The more a climate can be created in which neither the English nor the Scots are given cause to resent each other, the better.

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

Together we all live every momentOn the very brink

However, in many instances we might be very wise to ask what the consequence of removing the consequence might actually be.

My preparation is about precision. It is a science.

She wouldn't come back. She hated me. She hated Nan. She hated my mom. She hated her father. She wouldn't come back here... but God, I wanted her to.

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.

Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it.

When people are like each other they tend to like each other.

I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.