More than 50% of significant new regulations that impact on business in the UK now emanate from the EU.

Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services.

Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality.

Sometimes success is simply being willing to give it your all.

They take you. They treat you. They transform you.

Pain will never lessen without forgiveness, it will only manifest as anger and harden into resentment or bitterness.

I felt lonely, and in full possession of my loneliness. It was the first time I had owned anything of value.

We want revenge. We played well against them last time, and we feel like it's our turn.

We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.

One of my responsibilities is to make sure that justice is done for our citizens . . . . I want this case to be completed. Until that happens, it will continue to burden our relationship.

The eyes are the mirror of the soul and reflect everything that seems to be hidden; and like a mirror, they also reflect the person looking into them.

How much of Africa had been explored out of simple hatred?.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.