"What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable."

"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."

"My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work."

"We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives."

"To love deeply is to give someone the power to heal what words cannot reach. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."

"Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and solid bodies will be ill defined; that which is contained within their outlines and their boundaries themselves will be ill-understood unless they are shown against a background of a different tone from themselves."

"The wish for healing has always been half of health."