I wear a lot of different jewellery. I love to look for it when Im abroad or if I find a great antique or vintage shop.

I like doing Pilates because I get to lie down on the floor for the duration of the session.

My favourite trainers are Converse.

I don't wear lipstick when I'm not at work.

Growing up I always used to shop in Oxfam. I'd find things for 50p and then take them home, cut them up and make them into something new.

One favourite find of mine has to be a 1980s black dinner jacket that I wear as a dress.

Blessed are they who can carryA smile on their faceThey are ones who have foundInner peace in life’s mace

Be better than yesterday.

I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.

The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.

I myself am not afraid of ghosts; I am afraid of people.

Love forgives the lover even his lust.

If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it.

I had a prejudice against the British until I discovered that fifty percent of them were female.