Margaret Thatcher

"Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become habits. Watch your habits for they become your future."

"One's life is more important than one's health."

"I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to agree with me, that is not their job."

"Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas."

"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."

"I am not a consensus politician."

"The lady's not for turning."

"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."

"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

"Europe is not the creation of the Maastricht Treaty."

"Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

"What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to make an effort and go on making an effort."

"If you lead a country, you must love your countrymen."

"Home is where you come to when you have nothing to do."

"The spirit of envy can destroy; it cannot build."

"I stand before you tonight in my green chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up and my fair hair gently waved."

"I wish to goodness she would either write a book about her dressing or take up some other subject. I have been much bored."

"I want to be remembered as someone who did her duty."

"Watch your thoughts, because they become your words. Watch your words, because they become your actions. Watch your actions, because they become your habits. Watch your habits, because they become your destiny."

"I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air."

"It is not the business of the British Parliament and Government to resolve foreign conflicts."

"The choice facing the nation is between two totally different ways of life."

"I believe in the life to come."

"I always stood out as a sore thumb from the rest of my family."

"I am extraordinarily patient as long as I can have my own way."

"It pays to know the enemy—not least because at some time you may have the chance to turn him into a friend."

"If you have doubts about the Constitution, you should not have become Prime Minister."

"There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families."

"The freedom our constituents cherish is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."