Mandela didn't end Apartheid in South Africa, the poor guy was in jail for 27 years, it was the African people that ended it but he was a symbol of their struggle. Or Gandhi in India, Gandhi was a great believer in non-violence and he was in and out of jail, but India became free. I think it's better to look at what people can do collectively and that's why it's so important to encourage them.

The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.

When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split?

I don't want to commit myself in advocating a definite republican constitution which will get bogged down with the question of who would elect the President and when.

The New York Times said, "There are two superpowers in the world: the United States and the world peace movement."

The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.

If I were the American President I would rather be popular than have the power the destroy the world because however many puppets they have all over the Middle East - Saudi Arabia, Egypt and so on - they haven't got support from the people.