Jesus was a friend of women, the first and practically the last friend women had in the church.

Sexual pessimism and hostility toward the pleasures of the flesh are a legacy from the ancient world which Christianity has preserved in a special measure to this day.

Life follows a rhythm and we hold the drum.

...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to a hundred.

Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.

This is a Budget for Britain's future to secure fairness for each child and invest in every child

I love my small town, and I love going back there and supporting the community. But I could not have stayed there. No way.

When people ask how have I kept on top, I have to say with the help of every photographer, make-up artist and hairdresser I've ever worked with.

How odd to watch a mortal kindle / Then to dwindle day by day / Knowing their bright souls are tinder / And the wind will have its way

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

I believe that if you do what you love, things tend to fall in place.