The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

Lift the curtain and 'the State' reveals itself as a little group of fallible men in Whitehall, making guesses about the future, influenced by political prejudices and partisan prejudices, and working on projections drawn from the past by a staff of economists.

Values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed.

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

Of all political sacred-cows, education is the most sacred and the most cow-like.