The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.

Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it.

In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.

Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.

It is good to put your life in other people's hands.

If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.

When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother's curse?

It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.

It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.

It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.

It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.

I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.

You have to be a friend to have them.

No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.

Going out is such a hassle. The singles club scene where you sit down, talk, get to know each other, hang out-it's such a big ordeal.

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

I never ever took my career seriously.

As I say the UK's position on the issue of torture and the use of torture has not changed. Our policy is the same as it has been. We condemn torture.

Humility is the mark of a genuine disciple.