Plato

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into account. That will be our ambition for the UK Presidency.

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.