Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.

Over the next few days we want cities, towns and villages across the UK to send a message to Scotland: stay with us.

While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.

In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

We can only converse if we can speak the same language. So if we are going to build One Nation, we need to start with everyone in Britain knowing how to speak English.

Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until you make yourself sick.

I've supported Jeremy Corbyn all the way along because I think that was the right thing to do. I've reluctantly reached the conclusion that his position is untenable.

And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

John Major put the 'er' back into Conservative, David Cameron's put the Con into Conservative - and Norman Lamont put the VAT into Conservative!

She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the stars and left regret beneath the earth she walked on.

Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will. But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all

The drawback of stealing a thing, is that one never knows how wonderful the thing that one steals is.

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Treat your old parents as you would like to be treated by your children later.

Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart.

In many parts of the world the people are searching for a solution which would link the two basic values: peace and justice. The two are like bread and salt for mankind.

As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules.

Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.