Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest

Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.

Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.

For one to be free there must be at least two.

You are a stranger, I am a stranger, we all remain strangers, and nevertheless we can like or even love each other.

The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

The value of other people is that they have something unique to offer.

The planet is full and we will be rubbing shoulders forever. There is nowhere else to go.

Her existence alone was excuse enough to justify the creation of the entire world.

When I look at your smile, I can see your heart. When I look at your heart, it makes me smile back.

if you try you might succeed. If you don't try you won't succeed. On motor bike racing it goes= if you fall off and get back up you might win. if you stay lying down you won't win. Keep trying

Good deeds must be rewarded by the system and crimes be punished - this is the essence of meritocracy.

As we got older, their mischiefs continued to be shrugged off, but mine were not, and I knew from that point that I was measured from a different stick than my brothers.

I've always thought that the best solution for those who feel helpless is for them to help others.

I've always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great film, you have to take a lot of risks.

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

Wish I'd written Tikkun Olam – a Weavers or Peter Paul & Mary hit!

I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you.