There are hazards in everything one does, but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.

society, while willing to make room for women, is not willing to make changes for them.

The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.

We really shouldnt be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

It would be excellent if he is prepared to listen to other points of view.

I am not interested in a third party. I do not believe it has any future.

We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

The British civil service ... is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism.

The danger of any new party at a time of disillusion with the old parties, is that it becomes all things to all men.

Every good thing comes to some kind of end, and then the really good things come to a beginning again.

if that can't be your let that be remain for you but please keep your ego with you

It doesn't matter what challenge you face, the most important thing is, when you fall, how you rise and how high you want to go, where you want to go from that rise on.

I remember crying my eyes out when I watched the end of the Lion King

I could not lose unless I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.

There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

It's good to try stuff. I wrote a book that I threw away, and I think I just wrote it so I could try stuff in it and not be scared

I'm not ready to get married, but I have a pretty great family and I'd like that too, someday.

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

You know, the people who do indie film and decide who gets those little budgets? They're mean, man. They're cold and very cool-oriented.