My mother was the center of the family.

When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.

In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.

I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.

I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.

Life is full of surprises.

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete.

A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

May you find grace to survive life difficulties.

If only we studied the stars as much as we study our own reflections.

That's how most things are, " Gus replied sagely. "The theory is clean and polished, but the execution is usually an ugly, complicated mess.

I did gardening and cooking and drawing and reading to try take the pressure off the music - just being eclectic and putting the fun back in and bringing more innocence in again is really important.

I find politics in almost every country I go to be incredibly different and incredibly similar and I'm never surprised by anything.

Usually you regret the things you say no to.

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

Hold your tongue if you'd like to keep it." - Jaques

I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it.

There's no faster way or surer way to consolidate power and disenfranchise critics than to operate in secret. So this plays squarely into the promotion of the unitary executive. That's one factor.