The highest duty is to respect authority.

The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.

The Universe knows itself and expands itself through me.

Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.

Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.

I feel so bad about my MBE now that I am going to tie it around my cat.

But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off.