To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.

Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no credit to be won by timidity.

One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary.

You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.

To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it’s ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.

People perish. Books are immortal.

Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.