It is almost intrinsically impossible for ideas about how we are fooling ourselves to gain an adequate hearing. We are good enough at it to keep them nicely at bay.

In order to be treated fairly and equally, chidren have to be treated differently.

If it's working, keep doing it. If it's not working, stop doing it. If you don't know what to do, don't do anything.

If it's working keep doing it. If it's not working stop doing it. If you don't know what to do don't do anything.

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

I've given my phone number to the weirdest people. I get texts from people all the time.

Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless

I did a lot of terrible TV shows and was really terrible in them, and I've done terrible films I was terrible in, but nobody really noticed.

God warns us not to love any earthly thing above Himself, and yet He sets in a mother's heart such a fierce passion for her babes that I do not comprehend how He can test us so.

Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book.

The curse of God must have been on our people when we chose him out of so many noble sons of the South, who would have carried us safely through this Revolution.

Education must open the eyes and enable them to recognise the One behind the many.

Young people voted [on Brexit] to remain by a considerable margin, but were outvoted. They were voting for their future, yet it has been taken from them.