I have two daughters, it really means a lot to me to have two women standing now and being the PM.

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.

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.

I am haunted by my past and by what I must do to ensure my future.

Later, when you're grown up, you realize you never really get to hang out with your family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time, and that's it.

Nothing will make you look like an idiot faster than the fact that you don't know what you doing.

One reason we never tame the busy this beast is that we are unwilling to kill anything.

The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance. What it means is 'Leave me alone

Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects -themselves.

Who so ever diggeth the pit, shall fall in it.

Economists don't seem to have noticed that the economy sits entirely within the ecology.

Followers are the customers of the Higher Ground Leader, who strives to meet or exceed the outer and inner needs of followers.

And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true.