In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.

No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.

The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.

No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Free yourself from the need to blame others. There are two reasons that you are where you are right now

Why, God? You made man in your own image. Why then do so many lack good sense? And why is that we are so easily drawn to hate and kill each other? Why, God?

The only cost to happiness is, choice. Remember, happiness is exclusive of materialism and/or the external worldly influences

Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world.

Most of the writers I like just intimidate and humble me but in that there's a good deal of inspiration to be had as well.

Never thought I’d see the day when you’d throw your arms around a vam - someone like me

Win through your actions, never through argument.

Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators.