Quotes from Clifford Thurlow

We cannot construct equality. We can create fairness.

A few words in a stranger's language reminds us of our shared humanity.

The world only stays in balance when good people do what's right.

We used to be a nation of shopkeepers. Now we are a nation of second hand shops.

On the security circuit in the Middle East, reputation is everything. If you don't know someone, they're probably not worth knowing.

The extra mile is a lot longer than the rest.

A book is a journey of a thousand paragraphs. You begin with the first one.

It's the small things that matter, the daily routines. We struggle and dream, strive for meaning, for purpose, but a pint with a mate in the pub or ten minutes in a café having coffee with your lover. These are the things that make us human, the things we remember.

It is stereotypically English to accept that we are born with a fixed 'station' in life. It's what keeps the poor downtrodden.

Every jihadi bride who wants to come home is proof that Islamic State is a failure.

Life isn't what it is. It's what it can be.

Gossip is the human condition. It's like water. It finds its way through every crack and gap. It can't be contained.

All love as all life is cliché until you look beyond the obvious, until you look for what's hidden within what's displayed.

There's something weird about Wednesday. Wednesday's child is full of woe. Wednesday is sad and anxious about who he is, where he stands in the week. The word is weird. It should be Weirdsdsay. Wednesday would like to be Latin but took his name from Woden, the Norse God. The Old English had to say Wednesdaeg, which is a bit of a mouthful. Funny things happen on Wednesday.