“Politicians should resist the temptation to consider themselves experts in fields where they have no experience.”

I’m back, and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign ‘The Mummy Returns’

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

For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defense in favor of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other’s good intentions.

And I will go on criticizing Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

Nowadays there really is no primary poverty left in this country. In Western countries, we are left with the problems which aren’t poverty

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it.

When people are free to choose, they choose freedom.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.

Global warming provides a marvelous excuse for global socialism.

Give me six men and true, and I will get policies through.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Feminists hate me, don’t they? And I don’t blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.

Well, there’s a lot to react against!

But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching ‘We are all one.’

While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experiences of others.

Definitely working on ‘Deal or No Deal’ was a learning experience, and it helped me to understand what I would rather be doing.

Everything is falling together perfectly, even though it looks as if some things are falling apart. Trust in the process you are now experiencing.

Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.

If we perceived life with reverence, we would stand in awe at the experience of physical life and walk the earth in a very deep sense of gratitude.

When you are grounded in the present – feeling your feelings, listening to your body, tasting your food, and expressing your ideas – you do not build up toxicity. You digest your experience as you go.