Marcus Aurelius

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

I feel sorry for generations of Labour voters and supporters who must look and wonder what on earth has gone wrong and what Labour is for.

Last year, in the year 2008, it just became normal to watch great American institutions crumble, almost dissolve like sand.