A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement

Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.

No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.

When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country.

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship.

I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.

You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt

A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence.

We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty. We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.

Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.

It's just like in a Brazilian serial! Destiny has brought us together.

Uncertainty. Vulnerability. Death. Hard truths have a secret power over us. We’d rather ignore them.

If we want to truly regain the public's trust, we can provide greater accountability and transparency with a simple step. Let's start by communicating to our constituents about the votes we take.

I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.

I would say that working with Ridley Scott makes the process of directing much more terrifying.

A society in which women are taught anything but the management of a family, the care of men and the creation of the future generation is a society which is on the way out.

I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.

Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.

I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

There was a knight came riding by In early spring, when the roads were dry; And he heard that lady sing at the noon, Two red roses across the moon.