A rhinestone skein, a jeweled brocade of light, –the city is a garment stretched so thinher festive colors bleed into the night.

The happiest people don’t bother about whether life is unfair. They just concentrate on what they have.

The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers.

Everyone is happier if they have someone else to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both.

It's very rare that I get stopped or get asked for an autograph or anything - none of which I mind - but people don't really care that much.

We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free.

One swallow never makes a summer.

This is definitely a playoff team. There's no question about that. It's just a matter of how much we want it.

To be a leader is to be awake and alert, to be dissatisfied at all times