Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete.

When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.

In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.

I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.

I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.

Life is full of surprises.

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Whether you agree with me, disagree with me, like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when I am negotiating on behalf of the British people.

Broken.As I search for hope, In the same eyesI lost it.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.

I did great things in the theater. I did some nice roles, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly or La Vie en Rose. And I love my role in Frantic.

The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.

All right, then, I thought: here I am in the bottom of a well.

All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.

Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other.

Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.

A best friend isn't just someone who's always there for you. It's someone who understands you a bit more than you understand yourself.