Advertising holding companies used to boast about their share of the advertising market. Now they are proud of how much of their business is not in advertising.

The essence of parenthood is to make children think that they are the most handsome, intelligent, brilliant person in the world.

The Tories win elections when they lead on economic competence.

I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.

Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.

Politics is its own world. It is a court and if the king's eye lights on you, you are a powerful figure. If the king's eye wanders elsewhere, you are out, whatever your title.

Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.