David Cameron's message of change, optimism and hope is in tune with what Britain wants today

We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today's Britain. Today we don't.

It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party.

I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.

So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes.

Everyone now claims to be a moderniser and it's obvious, really. I mean, no one now says 'We need to go backwards... to the days of Lord Salisbury'.

The party at its best has always been a modern party.

We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.

Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.

If we do what we think is right, not try to point-score, people will begin to trust us.

The problem we have is not Labour, in however it is configured.

Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.

I guess it’s worth a shot.” More than likely a wasted bullet, but I’ll fire anyway.

Youth is an unrecoverable asset. Unless you are a hydra, lucky you.

To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than not.

MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.

Tune into your own capacities and always make time for sleep

Anybody that really knew Tupac will tell you the same thing. That he was just a dude that was full of life, full of energy.

Accepting that we are angry is a healthy and appropriate response as long as we don't get stuck in it. Acknowledging it is one way of going through it.

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

I hated teenagers in comics because they were always sidekicks. And I always felt if I were a superhero, there's no way I'd pal around with some teenager, you know.