I think we have to understand that sugar is an essential component of food it's just that sugar in excess is an inappropriate and unhelpful diet.

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses.

I know that nurses are not only the largest healthcare profession but are responsible for the delivery of most healthcare, and are often in the best place to be able to see the whole pathway of care.

In reality, we've had more spending, more bureaucracy, more waste and higher costs but without necessary reform nor rising productivity.

If I'm serious about patients and their GPs being able to have more control of their health care, I can't have a top-down system that imposes restrictions on the services they need.

No decision about me, without me.

We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy.

It's funny how things work out.Trouble is, I'm still not laughing.

A day without someone to hold you or a day without someone to share, is a day easily forgotten.’ - Vera Richardson in Mr Alhourani's Dead Man's Spots

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting.

Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.

Heaven can wait, but I cannot. I cannot take for granted that time is on my side.

My most important identity now is as a mother.

…I don’t wish to meet people. They disgust me. Increasingly so. But I must have milk.

The Bible was not written for entertainment purposes, so it's a real hodgepodge and a compendium of all kinds of stuff.

I'm a sucker for good black skirts and pretty little shirts and kooky tops. I have to admit that shopping satisfies my craving for immediate gratification.