What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!

For me, as I suspect for most people, there comes a point where you have enough. If you've got £20 million, why keep going until you've got £100 million or £1,000 million? Does anyone need another vast yacht or private jet or a house full of gold?

Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.

Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and all that is most base? Or has such excitement? Or more vividly exposes our strengths and weaknesses? Boring? You might as well say that life itself is boring!

If you spend too long trying to avoid death, you will be dead in at least one way.

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

But only a fool sails into combat with nature