Without false modetsy, I don't think I have a fraction of the talent of either Bevan of Foot.

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.

May your love never become an obsession.

The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong.

So I draw because I feel like it might be my only real chance to escape the reservation.

I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get.

I'm just happy as a lark having a good health. People say are you thinking about retiring, I don't have time to think about retiring.

To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.

From the beginning, this has been a faith-based ministry.

I never tried quitting, and I never quit trying.

In 13 years I've come to the conclusion that I need to play for second or third place.

It is up to us to cultivate our garden.