A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist.

When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.

In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.

I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.

I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.

Life is full of surprises.

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Whether you agree with me, disagree with me, like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when I am negotiating on behalf of the British people.

There are no whole truths

I had too many things to say, and too small a brain to sort them out with.

That last one sounded kinda high to me.

My wife runs the house much better than I could so I think she could be a linesman or a referee or even a football manager and that's the truth.

Organization of khaddar is infinitely better than co-operative societies or any other form of village organization.

A good mentor offers directions and driving tips from the back seat. You still have to drive the car.

When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing.

I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing.

I do not recall to [Kim Jong-un], but it was complex. "Dear young leader of the people and chairman of the joint military commission" or something like that.

I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's brilliant.