"Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for."

"I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else."

"My health is good and it's up to me to keep it that way."

"Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable."

"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."

"Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets."

"'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights."

"The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions."