Whatever else I know, I know that if you invest love and care in any individual you can help them to make a difference, to write their own life story.

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

For a few spotty years, I was that tragic geek

Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.

I'm a decentralizer. I believe in trusting professionals.

It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.

I have come, reluctantly, to the conclusion that Boris [Johnson] cannot provide the leadership or build the team for the task ahead.

I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created.

I will take all the steps necessary to give the NHS at least another £100million per week by 2020.

Time is how you spend your love.

A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

If I could claw the words out of the back of my throat and give them, dripping of me, to you, we would talk of sticky hands, and the messes they make.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

Saint Laurent has excellent taste. The more he copies me, the better taste he displays. - Coco Chanel

Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom, To shape and use.

Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been

These are three American citizens and we really demand answers for American citizens.

He's pulling him off! The Spanish manager is pulling his captain off

The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.