England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty place, from coal dust and smoke, from the grit stirred up every day by the jackhammers still clearing out rubble from the Blitz.

Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.

Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.

Having my son, it's such a sense of completion as a woman; it's put me at peace.

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.