The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill.

I don't know what reception I'm at, but for God's sake give me a gin and tonic.

(When asked who wore the pants in his house:) I do, and I also wash and iron them.

What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think.

For forty years I have been married to one of the greatest women the world has ever produced. All I could produce - small as it may be - was love and loyalty.

When it comes to saving England, Maggy is Ball's Deep

When I'm not paralytic, I like to play golf.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

For every Foo Fighters record, we've had two or three beautiful, acoustic-based songs, but they never usually make their way to the record, because we want to make rock records.

Miracles happen every day. Not just in remote country villages or at holy sites halfway across the globe, but here, in our own lives.

There is no place love is not.

If you're reading a comic strip, you can read it at any speed you want. But with film and music, the audience has to take it the way the composer gives it.

I am certainly not a blogger. Quite a large proportion of them are nuts and extremists - with the honourable exception of the culture secretary.

Ive always seen myself as sort of this funky, eclectic artist.

A traveler enters the world into which he travels, but a tourist brings his own world with him and never sees the one he's in.