She believes in something. It is an old-fashioned idea

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

I met somebody once who said, "I'm a lapsed-atheist" by what he meant was, "I don't believe in God but the older I get the more I realise there is a spirituality in everybody that has to be cherished and nourished." That made a lot of sense to me.

Experience is the only real teacher and if you keep a diary you get three bites at educating yourself - when it happens, when you write it down, and when you reread it and realise you were wrong. Making mistakes is part of life. The only things I would feel ashamed of would be if I had said things I hadn't believed in order to get on. Some politicians do do that.

Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.

It is wholly wrong to blame Marx for what was done in his name, as it is to blame Jesus for what was done in his