Jeffrey Archer Quotes - Page 2

But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot.

Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.

When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.

No time like the present

I'm vulgar, I'm a populist. But isn't that what the mayor should be?

The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.

Energy plus talent and you are a king, energy and no talent and you are still a prince, talent and no energy and you are a pauper

Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.

Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?

The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death.

I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know.

I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

I've loved art for more than 30 years.

I think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government when you can't do anything right, and people just kick you for the sake of it, will never admit they voted Conservative.

I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!

I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.

Who Saddam Hussein kills, dies.

And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life.

When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.

I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.

I do greatly admire Australian artists.

I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.