What we want is to make sure that people don't go through what I'm going through ... and we have to understand that even since Luke's death, children have been killed.

I want to tell people that family violence happens to anybody, no matter how nice your house is, no matter how intelligent you are.

What I want people to take from this is that it isn't simple. People judge you, people tell you what you should do. You do the best you can.

What we have to continue to remind ourselves is that violence is a choice.

Let's start calling family violence 'terrorism' and then maybe we will start to see that investment of funding applied to where it needs to be.

I never want anyone to be sitting where I'm sitting and to have lost their son, because I can never get Luke back.

Children have very little voice, and the coroner's inquest is about Luke's voice, and making sure Luke is heard and respected and honoured. I don't want him to have died in vain.

This is about saving children's lives. It is not about agencies and services protecting themselves.

Luke was a little boy in a growing body that felt pain and sadness and fear for his mum, and he always believed he would be safe with his dad.

There's a very apt saying in show business: "If you don't go over budget in Paris, you're either very rich or very sick. "

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

I don’t know why we do it. But sometimes we just swim straight for the net.

Coming to terms with my feelings of worthlessness isn't always a bad time, but it's rarely a good one.

An exhausted man easily falls prey to the adversary.

There are three creative ideas which, each in its turn, have been central to science. They are the idea of order, the idea of causes, and the idea of chance.

Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.

A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights.

There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in.

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.