Being an MP feeds your vanity and starves your self- respect.

As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God

Removing Christian evangelism from the African equation may leave the continent at the mercy of a malign fusion of Nike, the witch doctor, the mobile phone and the machete.

Bring on the fruitcakes, we want a fruitcake for an unlovable seat.

Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them.

All three of our major religions in Britain ~ Christianity, Islam and Judaism - have a hateful idea at the very core. That idea is Exclusion: the "othering," if you like, of the unredeemed.

I love you all, even those I don’t particularly like. That’s you, Beryl.

They say you’re meant to live everyday as if it were your last, which I’ve always thought was daft, since no one would ever pay the gas bill if that was the case, but what if it were your first?

Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.

I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

By not speaking you don't get rid of the story, you just open up a silence, which can be just as loud.

I'm more liable to hurt myself than someone else.

So all things limp together for the only possible.

Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.