What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?

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.

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

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.

The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.

D'Artagnan had time to reflect that women - those gentle doves - treat one another more cruelly than bears and tigers.

Good fiction often gives us characters in extremity, which ironically gives us a clearer mirror in which to see ourselves.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all.

Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.

You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy.

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius.

In a world characterized by loneliness and despair, we can reach out in love to those around us. Or, as St. Francis once said, we can "preach the gospel all the time; if necessary, use words."

Every Latter-day Saint should sustain, honor, and obey the constitutional law of the land in which he lives.