You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.

When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.

In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.

I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.

I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.

Life is full of surprises.

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete.

A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

A homeless with hope is in a better situation than a hopeless with home!

Happiness depends on our perceptions and thoughts.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

A church without a missions or a mission without the church are both contradictions. Such things do exist, but only as pseudostructures

I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita... "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.

I think the American people ought to take their democracy back.

Now is the one time in my life I can be 100% selfish. I'm not married; I don't have kids; I can focus on my career.

Seasons change. So do cities. People come into your life and people go, but it's comforting to know: the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.

I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians.

The greatest health is wealth.