The unforgivable political sin is vanity, the killer diet is sour grapes.

I warn you not to fall ill, I warn you not to get old.

I am the first male member of my family for about three generations who can have reasonable confidence in expecting that I will leave this earth with more or less the same number of fingers, hands, legs, toes and eyes as I had when I was born.

The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.

I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in Britain are just hostile to the whole European idea.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

Compassion is not a sloppy sentimental feeling for people who are underprivileged or sick... it is an absolutely practical belief that regardless of a person's background, ability or ability to pay, he should be provided with the best that society has to offer.