They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.

The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.

The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.

I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.

I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.

I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life.

We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.

Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.

The unforgivable political sin is vanity, the killer diet is sour grapes.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

People cry out against the sinner, yet it is not the sinful, but the stupid, who are our shame. There is no sin except stupidity.

If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.

There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.

We can work out anything if we put our mind to it, study it, do hard work instead of finding simple answers

Evil is international and the fanatic is international and universal. There is no difference between a Muslim fanatic, a Christian fanatic, even a secular fanatic.

I wasn't some weird loner in school, but I definitely wasn't invited to any of the cool parties. Girls didn't like me that much -- I didn't even go to my prom.

We need to start talking about child-rearing in the workplace.

To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away.

If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.