The key thing that went wrong was that a culture was allowed to develop where the relationship between what people did and what they got went way out of alignment, especially at the top end.

Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.

Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.

On top of that, we have a healthy and stable economy and an end to the boom and bust that characterised the Tory years.

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.

The question is not whether Scotland can survive as a separate state. Of course it could.

The economic times we are facing... are arguably the worst they've been in 60 years. And I think it's going to be more profound and long-lasting than people thought.

We can't be in the business of carting fresh air around the country.

We were at the stage where in a very short period of time, one of the world's biggest banks would have to shut the door and switch off the electricity.

Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.

As I said, there are two approaches-first, a strong economy, stability and helping families or, secondly, the Tory cuts, the undermining of stability, and a return to the boom and bust of the 1990s.

Just as you are, come to Christ Jesus, He will change you, to what you ought to be.

We celebrate the event not the time.

Some have eyes but they can't see. Some can see but have no eyes

Talent comes from education you had, languages you know and finally from skills you gain in your life.

Integrity reveals beauty.

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.

The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.

Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience.

Something told him that something was coming to an end. Not the world, exactly. Just the summer. There would be other summers, but there would never be one like this. Ever again.