First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings.

I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's a blowlamp.

It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.

Unless you understand the history of a situation, you can't ever hope to solve problems.

Being attacked by him is like being savaged by a dead sheep.

Squeeze property speculators until the pips squeak.

Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life.

If you’re in a hole, stop digging.

The right hon. Gentleman will be known for ever as the only Chancellor in the post-war period who brought this country to the brink of bankruptcy.

I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

But I so want to walk that razor's edge, Take feeling to a whole new level.

Life's hard. It's supposed to be. If we didn't suffer, we'd never learn anything.

I always found it weird when the Phantom would call Raoul insolent boy and the Raoul was obviously older than him.

Being in front of a live audience again. I get that in my concerts but there's nothing like being on Broadway.

I did a commercial when I was, like, 5 or 6 years old for... what was it called?... Cabbage Patch Kids! That was the first thing I ever did. Little bit embarrassing.

A lot of different races and nationalities play football, so it is a good way to try and stop racism.