I know you've got to earn people's trust, and you've got to earn it day after day after day.

I hope Donald Trump doesn't become president of the United States and I expect the people of the United States will have the good sense not to elect him.

I should say that being independent in the modern model means independent in a very interdependent world. An independent Scotland is not apart from the rest of the United Kingdom.

Scotland's voice has to be heard

I think it is disgraceful. I think it is completely disgusting that you've got a candidate for prime minster who seems to think that human beings are bargaining chips.

So after a lovely family Xmas day, this 80s teen is off to bed feeling a bit sad, but listening to this masterpiece [George Michael: I can't make you love me].

This is just too awful. Such an amazing talent [like George Michael] gone too soon. Wham was part of the soundtrack to my teenage years.

Sad to hear that George Michael has died.He was an exceptional artist and a strong supporter of LGBT and workers' rights.

Equality and prosperity shouldn't be seen as enemies of each other, but as partners. One reinforces the other.

True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.

My pledge to you is that the SNP will put women and gender equality right at the heart of the Westminster agenda.

One day this war will end. And when it does, Tule Lake will be just a memory.

We are inscrutable even to ourselves, I suppose.

Not only don't I know what tomorrow will bring, I'm still not entirely certain what yesterday brought?

I have always trusted my instincts, I took some bold decisions in my life.....many people may say they were crazy risks.

A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.

Everything a man writes about himself is instructive.

Never let anyone tell you that something is impossible.

I usually play disenfranchised youth

The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.

I always want to write something better than the last book.