We must not look for some kind of Messiah.

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.

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

You are too important to the bigger picture to just fall off the canvas.

Self acceptance is pure power.

Every man paddles his own canoe.

The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.

Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.

It ain't braggin' if you really done it.

The notion of democracy beginning to emerge scares the ideologues, the totalitarians, those who want to impose their vision. It just frightens them.

It's always a thrill to walk through a Broadway stage door.

Most of the characters I'd played were so different from me, so far from me that I had to transform.

If you ever want to be a decent player, you have to be able to use both feet without stopping to think about it.