I'm very proud of what my parents achieved and what they stood for. They didn't have much, but in many ways they were richer than most.

When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.

In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.

I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.

I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.

Life is full of surprises.

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete.

A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

They seemed so united that I loved them as one person." Lee wrote of his son and daughter-in-law on his daughter-in-law's death.

Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.

My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money.

Right now, the old guys, the old farts, if you will, are still running the show, and the women haven't gotten their place yet at all.

You don't have to be equal, you don't have to be better, you don't have to be worse. You can just be at peace.

Your body and your mind can be receptacles to perceive the whole cosmos - if only you do not identify yourself with them.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

Welcome home, Rachel mariana Morgan, he said, his goat-slitted eyes holding a new, dangerous light. It's a pleasure to finally meet you.

Women must destroy in themselves, the desire to be loved-

There is no magical solution because urban traffic congestion arises from the fact that a lot of people want to be in the same place at the same time often.