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

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.

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.

Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

When the distraction of the tongue is removed, the heart listens.

The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.Michel de Montaigne

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.

I don't go out with strangers," I said. "Good thing I do. I'll pick you up at five.

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

Art is a profession, not a shrine.

You are worth so much more than points on a scoreboard or wins vs. losses. The best athletes I know are also some of the best people I've ever met.

The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed.

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.