I'm a great believer in the Arsene Wenger school of management - which is, you don't worry about the opposition, you just get your own act together.

In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until you make yourself sick.

John Major put the 'er' back into Conservative, David Cameron's put the Con into Conservative - and Norman Lamont put the VAT into Conservative!

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.

Everything about my politics has been about the future.

We know from history that the way wars are concluded is absolutely the key to whether or not there is any peace to be kept.

If you decide to run for the leadership, you have to go through it with the people you love. But you also have to protect them and I am determined to protect my mum.

I don't think I've ever been accused of being faddish. I'm more Marks & Spencer than Ted Baker.

We are a European nation - must stay one.

Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.

People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction.

Morgan, Lewis is a very large firm now, but it was not quite as big then. It was exciting for an associate in those days, because you got good and varied assignments and terrific training.

To become a better you, you must be positive towards yourself, develop better relationships, embrace the place where you are.

Imagination should be integrated with life, not turned into a separate activity, art, that monopolizes one's whole existence.

I've always been melancholic. At a party, everyone would be looking at the glittering chandeliers and I'd be looking at the waitress's cracked shoes.

Did I mention how good it feels to be a bitcoin millionaire?

If I know anything about the character of God after fifty years of ministry, I know that God hates abortion.

I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

Be Charitable before wealth make thee covetous, and loose not the glory of the Mite.