I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.

Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.

If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.

I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.

A week is a long time in politics.

We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.

I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

If we had known our love would come to this we could have saved our hearts the hurt of wasted years.

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

Home is not a structure, but the place that we feel comfortable the place we belong the place of our loved ones.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God's providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.

People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio.

I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.

I believe that London is the most exciting food city in Europe.

El Santo's movies were kind of out there, but Mil Mascaras did the more reality-based type sci-fi movies. You could say he was one of the first to open the notion for those that subscribe to the mentality that this is sports-entertainment.

Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I mean.

A writer must say yes to life.

Monogamy is faith in the faithless.

A cabin with plenty of food is better than a hungry castle.

I wanted to go out and experience the fields.

I was a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, and my neighbor was Michael Novak, a theologian and philosopher who has written about issues like the morality of capitalism and the Christian roots of free markets. It's possible to be fascinated intellectually with the Christian heritage without being devout.

I grew up with artists.

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.

The humor and emotion of the 'Do You Want to Build a Snowman' theme makes me cry every time I watch it, and that deep emotion is something we'd love to do on the show. If we can make you cry, we always try to. And 'Once,' when it's at its best, is emotional and fun.

Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Once the subject matter of rock n' roll changed from cars and pop love songs to songs about really true love and the blues and death and mortality, this light bulb went off in my head and I went, 'Oh, that's what they're doing. That's kind of - that's art.'