"I now appreciate that Arabs and Jews were all a Semitic people originally + it is the influx of foreign, European Jews (especially from Poland, they say) which has helped to cause great problems. I know there are so many complex issues, but how can there ever be an end to terrorism unless the causes are eliminated? Surely some US president has to have the courage to stand up and take on the Jewish lobby in US? I must be naive, I suppose!"

"Instead of designing an extension to the elegant facade of the National Gallery which complements it and continues the concept of columns and domes, it looks as if we may be presented with a kind of municipal fire station, complete with the sort of tower that contains the siren. I would understand better this type of high-tech approach if you demolished the whole of Trafalgar Square and started again with a single architect responsible for the entire layout, but what is proposed is like a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend."

"A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants."

"I would suggest that the whole imposing edifice of modern medicine, for all its breathtaking successes is, like the celebrated Tower of Pisa, slightly off balance."

"Perhaps we just have to accept it is God's will that the unorthodox individual is doomed to years of frustration, ridicule and failure in order to act out his role in the scheme of things, until his day arrives and mankind is ready to receive his message: a message which he probably finds hard to explain, but which he knows comes from a far deeper source than conscious thought."

"I have often thought that one of the less attractive traits of various professional bodies and institutions is the deeply ingrained suspicion and outright hostility which can exist towards anything unorthodox or unconventional."

"Anthony Carthew (ITN): And, I suppose, in love? Lady Diana Spencer: Of course! Charles, Prince of Wales: Whatever 'in love' means."

"Delighted and frankly amazed that Diana is prepared to take me on."

"When people are uncertain about what is right and what is wrong, and anxious about being considered old-fashioned, it seems to be worse than folly that Christians are still arguing about doctrinal matters which can only bring needless distress to a number of people."

"I, Charles, Prince of Wales, do become your liege man of life and limb and of earthly worship and faith and truth I will bear unto you to live and die against all manner of folks."

"You have got to choose somebody very carefully who could fulfill this particular role, because people like you, perhaps, would expect quite a lot from somebody like that and it has got to be somebody pretty special."

"For ten years we had all been told to go out and die for freedom and democracy; but now the war was over, The Red Shoes told us to go out and die for art."

"he was determined to make Earthsea into a movie."

"Of course, all films are surrealist. They are because they are making something that looks like a real world but isn't."

"I am the teller of the tale, not the creator of the story."

"Seventy years ago there were men like D.W. Griffith and seventy years later - now - there are not many men like Martin Scorsese. But so long as there is one there will be others, and the art of the cinema will survive."

"The truth lies in black and white."

"[After Peeping Tom] When they got me on my own [the critics] gleefully sawed off the limb and jumped up and down on the corpse."

"Everyone has heard of Canterbury if only because they murder archbishops there."

"Art is merciless observation, sympathy, imagination, and a sense of detachment that is almost cruelty."

"The great innovators have always been fearless.... I have fallen off haystacks, out of trees, over cliffs. I have been nearly drowned, shot and hanged. I have been in countless car crashes without getting a scratch. I have been alone in an office with Louis B. Mayer."

"Actors and technicians were being demobbed every day. Very soon the only ham actor left in the combined forces would be General George Patton."

"We decided to go ahead with David O. (Selznick) the way hedgehogs make love: verrry carefully !"

"My master in film, Buñuel, was a far greater storyteller than I. It was just that in my films miracles occur on the screen."

"[Cinematographer] Jack Cardiff once asked Powell "Michael, do you make films for all types of audiences, or just for yourself?" Michael shook his head vigorously. "I make films for myself. What I express I hope most people will understand. For the rest, well, that's their problem.""

"[of his wife Frankie] In fact, if only I had been the perfect husband, she would have been the perfect wife."

"I got my first assignment as a director in 1927. I was slim, arrogant, intelligent, foolish, shy, cocksure, dreamy and irritating. Today, I'm no longer slim."

"I live cinema. I chose the cinema when I was very young, sixteen years old, and from then on my memories virtually coincide with the history of the cinema ... I'm not a director with a personal style, I am simply cinema. I have grown up with and through cinema; everything that I've had in the way of education has been through the cinema; insofar as I'm interested in images, in books, in music, it's all due to the cinema."

"All the most powerful speeches ever made point to a better future."

"Give people a convincing reason and they will lay down their very lives."

"When you have been close to death it makes you think about life."

"Connect with all the passions people have -for themselves, their families, their communities and wider world - and they will follow you to the ends of the earth, buy your products and services with pride, and may even be willing to work for you for next to nothing."

"You can have the greatest strategy in the world, but what is the point if no one cares?"

"Business is the "art" of making money by selling things or services people want for more than their cost."

"Mission is at the heart of what you do as a team. Goals are merely steps to its achievement."

"You cannot have strong leadership without passion."

"The key to understanding the future is one word: sustainability."

"The risk of a business being hit by a low probability, high impact event is far higher than most boards realise because the number of potential wild cards is so great."

"To every trend there is a counter-trend. There are a number of pendulums operating and each creates new business opportunities."

"The first one hundred and fifty year old human being could be alive as a baby today."

"Two thirds of all those who have ever lived to sixty five are alive today and most of them are women."

"In banking or insurance trust is the only thing you have to sell."

"The Six Faces of the FUTURE are: Fast, Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical and Ethical"

"Listen to your customers but don't (always) believe what they say - they know even less about the future than you."

"Institutional blindness is a major threat to the future of all corporations."

"The larger the corporation, the greater the risk that you are flying blind."

"Your company may have a reputation for brilliant leadership, outstanding innovation, clever branding and effective change management, but the business could fail if the world changes and you are unprepared."

"Take hold of your future or the future will take hold of you - be futurewise."

"Never has the future become so rapidly the past."

"Business strategy is the battleplan for a better future."