A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers.

Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.

Ideas in a void have never appealed to me; action must follow thought or political life is meaningless.

I am not, and never have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics.

A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.