"After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union."

"It does not seem to me that the steps which would be needed to make Britain - and others - more comfortable in their relationship in the European Union are inherently so outlandish or unreasonable."

"I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British prime minister with a positive vision for the future of the European Union. A future in which Britain wants, and should want, to play a committed and active part."

"We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work."

"In the depths of adversity, the only true currency in life is time well spent."

"An hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering."

"Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time."

"Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well."