As for those that carried out these attacks there are no adequate words of condemnation. Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.

The kaleidoscope has been shaken. The pieces are in flux. Soon they will settle again. Before they do, let us re-order this world around us.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.

There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.

Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.

A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out.

Politics is about listening and it's about leading.

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we've seen massive reductions in property.

The emphasis placed by more and more companies on corporate social responsibility, symbolises the recognition that prosperity is best achieved in an inclusive society.

I don't give up. That makes me incredibly resilient or maybe stupid or just plain stubborn. Whichever...

Pleasantly bustling shoppers streamed past us on Bond Street - smart-suited men and well-heeled women whose commitment to luxury goods glazed over their eyes like a bad case of malaria.

I want the presence of God Himself, or I don't want anything at all to do with religion... I want all that God has or I don't want any.

Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.

Knowledge fueled by emotion equals action.

Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.

I always used to be more of a city guy, and more and more I'm starting to enjoy being in nature.

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.

Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free.

This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?