“Do you know, one of the greatest problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas?”

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

It’s a funny old world.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Being Prime Minister is a lonely job. In a sense, it ought to be: you cannot lead from the crowd.

Freedom will destroy itself if it is not exercised within some sort of moral framework, somebody of shared beliefs, some spiritual heritage transmitted through the Church, the family, and the school.

I wasn’t lucky, I deserved it.

Of course, it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

If you can’t afford it, you can’t have it.

The facts of life are conservative.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at any time and would achieve nothing.

If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.

The problem with socialists is that they always run out of other people’s money.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

The larger Europe grows, the more diverse must be the forms of co-operation it requires.

If you really feel hatred for someone, and kind of send it their way, then it’s out of your system and in their hands. I always think it’s therapeutic.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

There’s nothing like the feeling of knowing that you’ve made a difference in someone’s life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.

Make-up sex, as treacherous as it can be, becomes this fun and playful thing versus this really intense thing. To me the song feels playful.

In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.

And when you’re feeling empty, keep me memory, and leave out all the rest, leave out all the rest.