Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal.

In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.

To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.

I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.

Britain does not want a return to boom and bust.

I take full responsibility for what happened. That's why the person who was responsible went immediately.

My favourite sport at school was rugby. All sports are teamwork, but rugby particularly is about teamwork and I think teamwork is the essence of this.

There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society

No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.

Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management

You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom you do everything to gain some right and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.

I am a result of what has happened on this planet - how could I find the art to say that? I can't, and yet, I am drawn to it because of the enormity of it. That seems really important.

I think I was made to live in New York. I love it.

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

For the longest time I didn't realize I was creative - I just thought I was strange.

There's no better feeling than making your little girls laugh.

You don't want to disappoint. Especially someone like me who's been out of music for years and hasn't had an album in like, four years.

I am the one, Not Running, Not Staying, But FACING

I've done things to my body, mechanically, that I'll never do again. I've done stunts that I shouldn't have done 10, 11, 12 times. I've broken a ton of bones on sets.

We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.