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

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.

But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companies' agenda. We see a substantial build-up of supply occurring over the coming years.

The Soul can hear the violets grow! It can hear the throbbing heart of God!

I cry every chance I get.

I just think when you read something that's magnetic that pulls you into it or resonates with you, whatever that may be, that's always a positive thing. And you never know what that's going to be.

When you're directing an ongoing series, the tone has already been set. So a director will come in and fulfill that tone - reinforce the characters and their behavior. The challenge is to find unique ways that you can visually tell the story while keeping the established tone and the pace and the characters.

It was when my children were 5, 3 and 10 months old that I just felt the desperate need to get to know God through the pages of my Bible. And as a result, I started a Bible class in my city for the primary purpose of being in it.

There's always room for improvement if you're ready to let go of the invaluable aspects.

It is the stories we don't get, the ones we miss, pass over, fail to recognize, don't pick up on, that will send us to hell.

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.

We all have that capacity to lose our humanity when circumstances force us to do so. It's not specific to people who live in Africa or Latin America or Asia. And equally, we are capable of regaining ourselves.

You have committed a double mistake firstly by not keeping the engagement yesterday and secondly by coming when you were not expected.

There's not a blueprint for me to follow.

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.

I was one of the first artists to have a YouTube account, if not the first. I joined two months after the site launched.

Those days of every child having a mummy and daddy who lived at home - Daddy went to work, and Mummy stayed at home and took care of everyone - those days have almost gone, and it's so much more unconventional now.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

I am a Christian guy. I've struggled with that; I have struggled with everything.

A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood.

Perfection is terrible; it cannot have children.

You know, even though I feel that I can still play the game, God has made the answer clear to me. Retirement is now. I have to retire as a Green Bay Packer.

For a person to be truly discipled and growing in their faith, they need more than one person discipling them.

I love Latin women, yet for some reason I always wind up with blondes.

Anyone who is drawn in broad strokes either negatively or positively is generally not very interesting to play.