Do I know I'm right? Judgements aren't the same as facts. Instinct is not science. I'm like any other human being as fallible and as capable of being wrong. I only know what I believe.

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.

If I grew up in the simple-minded belief that women were as strong and intelligent as men, it was because I came from a society that had once believed it.

Life was indeed good for a Wolf-Creature in the deep woods who had found his very own little red-headed chew toy.

The more important reason is that the research itself provides an important long-run perspective on the issues that we face on a day-to-day basis.

Unceasing prayer is the unbroken union of the soul with God, so that life from God flows into our life; and from our life, purity and holiness flow back to God.

Not even death can wipe out our good deeds

God comes to see without a bell.

Celebrity is currency, it's a good bargaining tool. It helps you get better service.

The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.

Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!

Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.