Surely the right course is to test the Russians, not the bombs.

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

It does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state...it means the end of a thousand years of history.

In the last few years we have learned to distinguish the means of Socialism from the ends.

I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools.

We could not have parliamentary sovereignty with a European Parliament.

We really must keep under control, and pretty strict control, the area within which 'The Man in Whitehall' knows best.

You still hear some people speaking as though we could decide whether the Common market existed or not.

You can't win an argument with an argument.

After all, hope is a form of planning.

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.

Good food is a celebration of life, and it seems absurd to me that in celebrating life we should take life. That is why I don't eat flesh. I see no need for killing.

When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.

Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?

We all want somebody to come in and save the day and change our lives for the better.

No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.

Mad About You fit my sensibility the most of any show that I worked on, and as a result, it was really fun. It felt like a very natural fit.