society, while willing to make room for women, is not willing to make changes for them.

If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.

There are hazards in everything one does, but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.

We really shouldnt be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

It would be excellent if he is prepared to listen to other points of view.

I am not interested in a third party. I do not believe it has any future.

We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

The British civil service ... is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism.

The danger of any new party at a time of disillusion with the old parties, is that it becomes all things to all men.

Embrace the sacredness of existence.

Everybody should have a librarian.

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.

Bubba made a sound of disapproval "You're not supposed to be kissing on anybody else, Miss Sookie" he said "Bill said it was okay, but I don't like it.

The cosmos deals in the currency of emotion. When we feel good, goodness flows.

My fans expect me to be great and keep being great.

Persistence may not solve everything - at least in our lifetime - but it is truer to the meaning of life for us to wait for another plowing, another seeding, another harvest, then not.

His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead.

All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.

We cannot know what faith is if we have never had it, and we cannot obtain it as long as we deny it. Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.