If a teacher misses a target, they change the teacher, If a minister misses a target, they change the target

A form of conservatism that makes clear we have problems in this country, it's not just about individualism, we have to help people who feel they're being failed by the system.

When [Theresa May] says something she means it and she gets her way.

She [Theresa May] has done more to bring immigration down and abolish things like bogus colleges.

We have to consider who is going to be the best prime minister to take on a "one nation" agenda.

The most successful people start with dominant talent—and then add skills, knowledge, and practice to the mix. When they do this, the raw talent actually serves as a multiplier.

One of the best-kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.

I don't mind scrutiny. What I don't like is lies.

Romantics value intensity over stability. Realists value security over passion. But both are often disappointed, for few people can live happily at either extreme.

The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference.

Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.

Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.

The enterprise, by definition, must be capable of producing more or better than all the resources that comprise it.

It's useless to send models out on the runway to cry.

The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.