I will lay out my plan for the United Kingdom, which I hope can provide unity and change.

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

For a few spotty years, I was that tragic geek

Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.

I'm a decentralizer. I believe in trusting professionals.

It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.

I have come, reluctantly, to the conclusion that Boris [Johnson] cannot provide the leadership or build the team for the task ahead.

I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created.

I will take all the steps necessary to give the NHS at least another £100million per week by 2020.

We are born, we get names, we get educated, we get values, we get job and money. But all this is not life, life is love found in friendship, friendship found in love and in love, sacrifice.” Vijay

A well hit golf shot is a feeling that goes up the shaft, right through your hands and into your heart.

Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.

Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on track.

Believe in yourself, know yourself, deny yourself, and be humble.

Sometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking.

Play for one another, and play the right way. The right way is believing in what's on your chest and not what's on your back.

Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here.

I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.

It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.