Art is a tool by which society extends its perception.
The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.
Compassion is not a sloppy sentimental feeling for people who are underprivileged or sick. . . it is an absolutely practical belief that regardless of a person's background, ability or ability to pay, he should be provided with the best that society has to offer.
I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.
The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.
I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.
The enemy of idealism is zealotry.
Un-forgiveness is like cancer; it eats you from the inside out.
Love is big. Love makes room for conflicting feelings.
You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.
When you're under audit, you don't give your papers. An audit is - I have been under audit for so many years. Every year, I get audited. For, I think, over 10 years, maybe even 12 years, I have been audited. And I think it's very fair. And I think I'm being singled out.