The problem we have is not Labour, in however it is configured.

We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today's Britain. Today we don't.

It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party.

I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.

So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes.

Everyone now claims to be a moderniser and it's obvious, really. I mean, no one now says 'We need to go backwards... to the days of Lord Salisbury'.

The party at its best has always been a modern party.

We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.

Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.

If we do what we think is right, not try to point-score, people will begin to trust us.

David Cameron's message of change, optimism and hope is in tune with what Britain wants today

Treat time and money as though they are the same by using both resourcefully.

Take time to define your own goals and stay focused on achieving them. You're your own competition.

I just don't know how to write a love letter. What can you say to a girl that shows you really like her?" "How about, enclosed please find a cookie?

As an action director I always try to bring something fresh and new.

What you must do, do cheerfully.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Our actions in this world, and our ability to rise above the limits of our own self-interest, live on far beyond us and play their humble part in shaping a world of spirituality and peace.

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

Sometimes I am God, if I say a man dies, he dies that same day.

If you don't act on life, life will act on you