Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.

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.

All my life I've been fascinated by the precipice in all of us. When you come to it, you either choose to fall or you don’t --Alvin Ailey

People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.

If I can't joke about imminent death, then I might as well just resign.

You can't go around... licking things that come out of a water treatment plant. That's just... unsanitary.

To destroy that which seeks to destroy me, God invites me to stand against it until it stands down and then falls down.

Other people's children's birthday parties are the most joyful events you will ever resent having to attend.

There's only so much artistic output that I can actually expel at any one given time.

To keep a vow, means not to keep from breaking it, but rather to devote the rest of one's life to discovering what the vow means, and to be willing to change and to grow accordingly.

My MIND POWER gave me this body.

I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.