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

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 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.

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.

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.

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

Anything does not exist until it is created. You create it

Gratitude can't grow love higher than regret.

Never worry about what you can't control...Focus on what you can.

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

I don't think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You've got to keep pushing.

All conflict can be traced back to someone's feelings getting hurt, don't you think?

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.

We need faith, not because there are beings who will punish us or reward us, but because gods are a wonderful way of describing things that are happening to us.

Our basic fundamental desires are overly stimulated. A friend of mine said, "you have a generation of people that have been accidentally marketed to."