For years I have made the point that progress in winding back economic slack is made not by high growth in any individual year, but by maintaining an expansion over a sustained period.

If people can't abide by the confidentiality of the cabinet room, then they should leave the cabinet.

When everyone feels that risks are at their minimum, over-confidence can take over and elementary precautions start to get watered down.

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

For every choice there is a tragedy

~Don't forget to cheer for yourself, when you reach the finish line~

In the city, strangers seldom meet beyond daily functions. Instead, they brush by with a haste and preoccupation that so defines a century of 'too little time'.

A lonely man on a rainy night who cannot read.

I do sarcasm really poorly.

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death.

Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love.

Some women were talking about how I put out. And that's just not that case. I don't put out - unless I'm asked very, very politely, and that's not putting out, that's just giving in.

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.