If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.

Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.

All I can say to the others is, 'Look out, we're on our way.

After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.

We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.

That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids,' is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.

I am not going to go round trying to make people say 'Wow!'... I'm not going to play Hollywood lookalikes.

No I'm not a great believer in getting back over things and saying if only, or if, or buts because I don't think we actually get anywhere on that.

It is The Action That We are Taking NOWThat will Determine our FUTURE Lives

When one looks truly at the good side of everyone, others come to love him very naturally, and he does not need even a speck of flattery.

I've just swum the length of the Thames. I feel quite tired.

I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting.

If you learn music you'll learn most all there is to know.

The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.

Like a lot of people, I love a bit of blood and gore.

An object never serves the same function as its image - or its name.

Do you know what my favorite renewable fuel is? An ecosystem for innovation.