I remember thinking, when I was in my early 30s, that this is the best age to be, and I still believe your 30s are a wonderful time.
Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.
The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
The profoundest distances are never geographical.
Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.
One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true - they were successful because they imposed chaos on order. They tore up the commandments, they denied the super-ego, what you will. They said, "You may persecute the minority, you may kill, you may torture, you may couple and breed without love. " They offered humanity all its great temptations. Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
I never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, 'I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,' and tell my children that.
I can't believe I'm about to say this," I said. "So think real careful about where this is coming from. Have you people ever considered *talking* when you've got a problem?
I would rather watch a sunset than TV.
If you are in the job for glamour, you're in for the shock of your life. The media is a huge shark pool.