Teaching is a strategic act of engagement.
My biographer said that my parties reminded them of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in.
In my thirties I was doing it, in my forties I was organizing it and now, unfortunately, I can only talk about it.
When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that?
Like I said in my election manifesto - why don't they legalise the whole thing and let people like me work?
It's been a rollercoaster life but it hasn't been boring.
I'm glad I haven't married - I crave excitement.
Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly doubtful nature of the whole edifice that I had subsequently based on them. I realized that it was necessary, once in the course of my life, to demolish everything completely and start again right from the foundations if I wanted to establish anything at all in the sciences that was stable and likely to last.
Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.
Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can't make a healthy choice.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve with Positive Mental Attitude. It is a form of self-suggestion. It is a self-motivator to success. When it becomes a part of you, you dare to aim higher.