The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.

Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.

All I can say to the others is, 'Look out, we're on our way.

After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.

We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.

That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids,' is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.

I am not going to go round trying to make people say 'Wow!'... I'm not going to play Hollywood lookalikes.

No I'm not a great believer in getting back over things and saying if only, or if, or buts because I don't think we actually get anywhere on that.

Nothing was a natural predator of productive fiction writing like the cell phone. Ditto the laptop. As she had well learned, the laptop could destroy a day.

Be kind, be decent, be generous, be tolerant, compassionate, and understanding. Be fast to praise, slow to judge. Remember, we're all human, and don't cast the first stone.

The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God's thought and hand, is our own soul!

Human beings are the only creatures who blush - or who need to.

And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)

There are always three sides to every memory…yours, theirs, and the truth, which lies somewhere in between the two

What I don't like is snark for snark's sake. If you are going to make fun of me, at least be witty while doing it.

I could not possibly overstate the need for an urgent response.

I was never NOT confident about doing scenes without my shirt - and now I'll find any excuse to take my shirt off!

Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.