You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose - and that means evolution.
I've met serial killers and professional assassins and nobody scared me as much as MrsT.
Well, on lots of small things we could have done better, but on all the big things we called it right. You should make less mistakes as you get older, and I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.
When I was leader of the GLC, by the time I had been in control for three years, the difference in pay between the cleaner and the director general was a four-to-one ratio. I find that attractive.
If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term, would I? I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.
I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.
I swim three times a week.
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
I love music. But I've never owned a TV in my adult life, and I've never lived in a place with a television.
In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great injustice happens, but the maiming and repudiation of one-half of the moral and intellectual power of the government of the world.
Existence itself is disconcerting and disorienting.