No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.

Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.

When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country.

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship.

I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.

You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt

A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence.

We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty. We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.

Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

Perception is more important than reality. If someone perceives something to be true, it is more important than if it is in fact true.

Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?

I was a film-directing major at NYU. I'm still not sure why I became a directing major, when I was really an actor and a comedian, but there was something that drew me to doing that.

When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.

When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.

If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.

Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.

I always start a book for money. If you're married five times you have to.

Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

Close Dept. of Education, but don't dismantle public schools.