It is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.

I've never thought of myself as being particularly brave - I used to be frightened of the dark when I was small. And I'm not very good with dead rats and things like that. But I face what has to be faced and I hope as best as I'm able.

In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.

When I was under house arrest, it was the BBC that spoke to me - I listened.

It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.

Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and an absorbing mystery.

There is a special charm to journeys undertaken before daybreak in hot lands: the air is soft and cool and the coming of dawn reveals a landscape fresh from the night dew.