The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings.

I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's a blowlamp.

It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.

Unless you understand the history of a situation, you can't ever hope to solve problems.

Being attacked by him is like being savaged by a dead sheep.

Squeeze property speculators until the pips squeak.

Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life.

If you’re in a hole, stop digging.

The right hon. Gentleman will be known for ever as the only Chancellor in the post-war period who brought this country to the brink of bankruptcy.

Mrs Thatcher tells us she has given the French President a piece of her mind... not a gift I would receive with alacrity.

I can't live without the sun shining down on my face, and I can't dream without the stars kissing me goodnight.

Uselessness, she thought, was the permanent condition of parenthood.

We should not give away a moment to anyone who does not deserve it.

It's not your responsibility to have the bigger picture in mind. But, the downside is that then, a lot of times, you're disappointed by the movies that are made around you.

For some comedians it feels so cool to be like: 'I'll say anything, man!'. I'm not quite there yet.

This is the greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise: You take hydrogen gas, and you leave it alone, and it turns into rosebuds, giraffes and humans.

I am so grateful for all the love and support I've had from people around the world.

As a kid, there [on TV] were things I wasn't aware of - insecurities while transition from teen to adult. When I was around 17 and 18, I started seeing the benefits of this world.

You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.