Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.
The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter.
When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
To be alive at all involves some risk.
You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.
Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.