We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.

Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.

If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.

Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.

Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.

Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.

While many ethnic and religious groups are mainly focused on the afterlife and downplaying this world, Jews view wealth and success as a blessing and gift from God.

Some people play golf. Some are artists, Some jog. I like to write.

I love doing serious movies for adults.

A risk is a chance you take; if it fails you can recover. A gamble is a chance taken; if it fails, recovery is impossible.

The political maturity of a country is measured by what citizens willingly do for themselves and one another.

The eternal female draws us onward.

I'm a guy who is married to an actress, who has three children, and lives in Tribeca. Where do you draw the line on what I am allowed to discuss?

I told the ambulance men the wrong blood type for my ex, so he knows what rejection feels like.

Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon.

When you've toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you're always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag