I think that the EU with the Lisbon agenda has put the right emphasis on growth and employment.

I might bend, but I will NEVER break because it's in my nature as a strong woman.

Always be more than you appear and never appear to be more than you are.

Look forward to the future and look forward to the unknown. Nothing stays the same and people change. One day that hurt and pain will be a distant memory.

Freedom does not mean being free of something, but to be free to do something.

I never underestimated myself. And I never saw anything wrong with ambition.

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.

I am thankful for all the hard times I've been through and all the tears I've cried because that has put me as closer to God and made me the strong woman I am today!

Ladies, it is not your education, status or personality that has brought you here but the elegance of God which was still and still working upon you.

Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together.

I am not here for women only, but also for women.

Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Despite his flaws, one has to admit that he is a whale-sized catch.”“I’ll be thrilled when someone harpoons him, ” Lillian muttered, making the other two laugh.

I could smell an arrogance, it was my cheap fragrance.

Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

But if that's what you want to be, that's what you will be - as long as you study.

God will not lead you where He will not provide for you.

It is quite wrong for party conferences to be used as an excuse for the Commons not to sit. Conferences could be held at weekends.

Thank God life ends—we'd never survive it. From Big Bang to weary shag, the history of the world. Our flesh is ferocious...our bodies will kill us...our bones will outlive us.

Someone now has to step up and take on the mantelpiece.