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

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.

Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation...

It's lovely to be old. I've got age, experience and zero personal ambition. No body could corrupt me by anything: possibly a job in the government, a peerage, a quango, I don't want any of it.

Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths

If one meets a powerful person - Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates - ask them five questions: 'What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?' If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you, you do not live in a democratic system.

I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.