What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.

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.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.

The person who has no deputies or assistants has no future.

To be ignorant of one's own ignorance is to be in an unprogressive, uninspired state of existence.

My heart goes out to you, and I long to see you all coming constantly to God for a fresh supply of love.

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.

The problem with popular thinking is that it doesn’t require you to think at all.

Never ruin an appology with an excuse.

I had a very pleasant three years at Yale. I must say I did take it seriously, and consequently it took me a while to get over it.