By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry.
I'm down to a bottle of wine a day, but my hands still shake a bit.
Am I drinking today? Well, put it this way, I'm not not drinking.
I say to my colleagues that I sit alongside them in committee, in the bars and in the tea room, and I queue alongside them in the division lobby. But when it comes to marriage, they are asking me to stand apart and to join a separate queue. I ask my colleagues, if I am equal in this house, to give me every opportunity to be equal.
No-one can do everything for the environment, but every-one can do something to make a better world.
There is not a need to prove anything to anyone with your words. Let that which you are - that which you are living - be your clear example to uplift others.
Hubble is very close to my heart, and going back to Hubble, because I was there once already in 1993, is really a great privilege for me.