I am not going to go round trying to make people say 'Wow!'... I'm not going to play Hollywood lookalikes.

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.

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

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.

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 we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness in those we will meet in the future.

He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.

I stood there, battered by the raw power and sheer magnificence of a land I'd never known

What had been so funny? But you can never remember what you were laughing about, and even if you could, it seems doubtful that it would still be funny.

The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them.

My only solution for the problem of habitual accidents is to stay in bed all day. Even then, there is always the chance that you will fall out.

Every time we remember to say "thank you", we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

If we ourselves want to be free and happy then by enslaving and harming animals we will not be able to achieve our goal.

One of the reasons there are largely Catholic and largely Protestant regions of Germany today is that people did sort themselves out geographically.