We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.

The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.

The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.

I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.

I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.

I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life.

Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.

The unforgivable political sin is vanity, the killer diet is sour grapes.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.

Sin is really an extreme form of amnesia. It is forgetting who you were when you were created as a spirit which came forth from the heart of God—a spirit made in His perfect, sinless image.

The sea hath fish for every man.

That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams. The girls of 1929.

It is a lifetime effort to come to grips with being an artistic person.

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

The fact that I've managed to find a husband who understands and respects everything I do is astonishing.

It is easy to turn a scooter, but not a train with 40 bogeys. This is such a big country, changes are constant and widespread.

Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.

Petersburg, growing up at home, all by my family and friends, Petersburg really, city-raised me, you know everybody there.

Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We - the American people - we are the solution.