It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.

I will fight for what I believe in until I drop dead. And that's what keeps you alive.

He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

Think, think, think. It will hurt like hell at first, but you'll get used to it.

Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world.

Why get rid of Chamberlain to put in Halifax? It's like getting rid of the organ-grinder to put in the monkey.

And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.

You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.

Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.

And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

love yourself first, and you will always be in love.

A spirtually illumined soul lives in the world, yet is never contaminated by it.

A leader is a person who knows how to act when other people don’t.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Wondering leads to writing.

Forgiveness changes the way we remember.

When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.

But I was a pure romantic, and only operating with half my burners turned on.

I love the fact that I'm bad at [things], you know what I'm saying? I'm forever the 35-year-old 5-year-old. I'm forever the 5-year-old of something.

The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene.