The Americans are extremely gadget minded people and American gadgets have a peculiar characteristic: they work.

In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state.

I said in my earlier book, and find no reason for retracting my statement, that the famous Jewish sense of humour got lost in transit to Israel.

I asked many friends if Australian anti-intellectualism was still a living force and they all told me it was. If you are above average intelligence, hide this embarrassing fact.

To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement; but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet.

To be extravagant you need money. True. But you do not need your own money.

A great deal of the pupils time was spent going through, once again, the History of the Communist (Bolshevik) Party of the Soviet Union. He had learnt it at elementary school; at secondary school; at his sports club; at the Komsomol; at the university; at a folk dancing course; at the chess-club.