The British prime minister will want to have a strong and positive relationship with European leaders always.

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

For a few spotty years, I was that tragic geek

Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.

I'm a decentralizer. I believe in trusting professionals.

It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.

I have come, reluctantly, to the conclusion that Boris [Johnson] cannot provide the leadership or build the team for the task ahead.

I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created.

I will take all the steps necessary to give the NHS at least another £100million per week by 2020.

Always live in the here and now

Be music always. Keep changing the keys, tones, pitch, and volume of each of the songs you create along your life's journey and play on.

Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world.

The Advantages of Crises in a relationship is to showcase the REAL Person in the relationship.

He was slumped over, blood trickling from the side of his mouth. I shook his furry hip, thinking, No! Even if you are half barnyard animal, you're my best friend and I don't want you to die!

The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.

I shot down two airplanes in Korea, so I wasn't a slouch.

It is not the project but the living process that will be the measure of our actions.

What is this obsession people have with books? They put them in their houses like they're trophies. What do you need it for after you read it?

The world is polarizing over religion. It is getting both more religious and less religious at the same time.