Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.

Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.

Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.

On top of that, we have a healthy and stable economy and an end to the boom and bust that characterised the Tory years.

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.

The question is not whether Scotland can survive as a separate state. Of course it could.

The economic times we are facing... are arguably the worst they've been in 60 years. And I think it's going to be more profound and long-lasting than people thought.

We can't be in the business of carting fresh air around the country.

We were at the stage where in a very short period of time, one of the world's biggest banks would have to shut the door and switch off the electricity.

The key thing that went wrong was that a culture was allowed to develop where the relationship between what people did and what they got went way out of alignment, especially at the top end.

As I said, there are two approaches-first, a strong economy, stability and helping families or, secondly, the Tory cuts, the undermining of stability, and a return to the boom and bust of the 1990s.

I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.

Make sure your sphere of influence is a piece of Heaven

Sometimes in utter hopelessness I put my cheek on the table like it was someone. I wanted to wake my brain up and be loved.

When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.

I'm not saying goodbye to life because I'm a misanthropist or disdain this life, but because, for other reasons, it's time to move on.

Everything is just as it needs to be. And if we would forgive, our minds and hearts would open and we could see another possibility.

Lives devoted to Beauty seldom end well.

Dare I? Of course I don't. But I'm going to anyhow because I have no choice.

He asked himself those some questions too many times and felt the fears again that kept him where he was