In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.

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.

apart from being suicidal I'm fine

How long will you keep me?" I asked.You shrugged. "Forever, of course.

Hope says to us constantly "go on go on " and leads us to the grave.

If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.

Be sure it is not for nothing that the Landlord has knit our hearts so closely to time and place – to one friend rather than another and one shire more that all the land.

The way I represent my individuality is by mixing classic pieces - like sports jackets - with little, unexpected additions.

It's sacred for an actor to keep their personal life personal.

The sorts of sectors which feature so largely in the [Donald] Trump program, and its rhetoric, account now for perhaps only about 15 percent of the American work force.

Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.

The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back.