I've been poor and neglected, in the middle and cherished, then rich and miserable and back to the middle and now happy. I've lived it all.

I've always been very outspoken and a supporter of the underdog, because I'm one as well. I

Nature has a way of deadening us to traumatic events, until we're ready to deal with it. And once you do, it's a volcanic reaction.

San Francisco is poetry. Even the hills rhyme.

Thanks to my son, I've learned to laugh at myself. Laughter has been my saving grace.

Everyone brings their own perceptions when reading a book about a real person. At the end they will take away whatever they wish.

Our heart creates everything from nothing. That is the magical power of love.

followers have a very clear picture of what they want and need from the most influential leaders in their lives: trust, compassion, stability, and hope

I'm the man that'll make your nights shine bright like day light.

The leadership definitely have to come from the leaders.

Don't make me sad, don't make me cry. Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough, I don't know why.

Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless.

What one tries to force into a child against its own nature will never come to good.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

I am honest enough with myself to admit it. I rarely offer strong opinions, I have a backbone like a pair of bifold doors, and I am terrified of not being approved of.

My temper manifests itself when I can't find something. I could swear that there is a plot against me to put kitchen utensils in the wrong drawers.