Margaret Thatcher

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

If I had written something, and I had written myself into a corner, I didn't abandon it. Because I remembered: There's always more.