Jubilee 2000 is a broad coalition which has moved the earth.

In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.

Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal.

To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.

I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.

Britain does not want a return to boom and bust.

I take full responsibility for what happened. That's why the person who was responsible went immediately.

My favourite sport at school was rugby. All sports are teamwork, but rugby particularly is about teamwork and I think teamwork is the essence of this.

There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society

No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.

You have to do some thinking and know who you are, and then you have to resist compromising your truth for the comfort of others.

Well, have you ever thought of bathing?' I asked, turning away. 'No one wants to hire a wizard who smells worse than their outhouse. And who knows what creatures are living in that hair?

Or perhaps this hostility of yours is the pretense. Love does make liars out of your kind.

I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you've seen them.

Influence often isn't noticed until it blossoms later in the garden of someone else's life. Our words and actions may land close to home, or they may be carried far and wide.

I have very old-fashioned tastes.

And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.

The biggest trap, the biggest dungeon in life isn't laziness or bad luck, it's comfort.

I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.

A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.