Quotes from Jeffrey Archer

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

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.

The worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of the battle

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

I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.

I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right.

I put &pound150 000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back &pound1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.

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

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

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

I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.

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.

Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes.

We all make mistakes but one has to move on.

I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.

If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.

we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.

I find I don't learn a lot while I'm talking

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

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

Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.

There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date.

If you have to pay a bill, always make it look as if the amount is of no consequence.