I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.

Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.

Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

I know people are fickle.

We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.

Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.

In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.

I loved Bonny, and I always prayed that God would sneak in there and get a little light in her life.

I am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan.

I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.

Australia is the most isolated continent.

I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy.

You cannot mock God because whatever good thing you do, you're gonna reap for it.

We think we understand another person's struggle until God reveals the same shortcomings in our lives.

If you put it on the table as a bargaining chip, it becomes a bargaining chip

If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.