Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.

The richness and variety, and indeed the advance, of our culture depend upon the continuation of this conflict [between conservatives and radicals], which is deeply rooted in human nature.

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.

A Stalin functionary admitted, Innocent people were arrested: naturally - otherwise no one would be frightened. If people were arrested only for specific misdemeanours, all the others would feel safe and so become ripe for treason.

A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.

I was very fond of Princess Diana. She used to have me over to lunch to ask my advice. I'd give her good advice, and she'd say: 'I entirely agree. Paul, you're so right.' Then she'd go and do the opposite.

Hell is being trapped in a night-club with the'beautiful people'and forced to live in a'luxury penthouse flat'.