We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.

Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.

Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

I know people are fickle.

We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.

Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.

Innovation is a question of ambition, and imagination, not a question of investment only.

Extinguish even the wee annoyance, as it will grow to become evil!

The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

For every action there is a reaction. Karma can be examined within the structure of an hour, a year, a lifetime, a thousand lifetimes.

There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.

The most fervent prayer meetings are in hell.

Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.

Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory.

Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?