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.

Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.

I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.

I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life.

Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount.

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

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