The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.

I want to retire at 50. I want to play cricket in the summer and geriatric football in the winter, and sing in the choir.

Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn't see, or didn't want to see, the unfairness and disadvantaging consequences of the application of what she thought to be a renewing ideology.

I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.

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

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.

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.