I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.

I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.

I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.

And obviously, with hindsight now, now knowing what went on in the company, it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for us to have the chief executive of the company, most senior person in the United Kingdom, come and answer for the policy they were pursuing. And we ducked that, and frankly that's a failure of Parliament.