I've read The Satanic Verses and I thought it a nasty, sneering, free-thinking book... I can understand why the book is offensive and it didn't seem to me to be anything but offensive when I read it.

Liberalism is essentially the belief that there can be a reconciliation of all difficulties and differences, and since there can't, it is a misleading way to approach politics.

I'm an intellectual Thatcherite, just as I was an intellectual Powellite, and I think it important that the Conservative party should be in good hands and that it should win elections.

How do you explain to a child who likes everyone in the world that adult life consists to a great extent of cutting people away?

He said that he was sure you would be amendable to this course of action." April paused, eyes widening, before she said indignantly, "I believe he may have lied to me!

solutions have a voice - the art is knowing how to listen

Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married.

A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.

The fact that I lost my son permeates my being.

He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.

If any chef ever tells you they're not inspired equally by the truck-stop barbecue as they are by the four-star Michelin restaurant they are lying.