Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250, 000 in Britain.

In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.

Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal.

To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.

I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.

Britain does not want a return to boom and bust.

I take full responsibility for what happened. That's why the person who was responsible went immediately.

My favourite sport at school was rugby. All sports are teamwork, but rugby particularly is about teamwork and I think teamwork is the essence of this.

There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society

No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.

The moral of the tale is this: whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped.

I suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.

Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.

Solutions to problems often come from knowing when to ask for help.

There's something so glorious in giving control to the world. I think that's what I'm trying to do in my films-control the world but also let it be chaotic, let there be life.

The visual possibility of seeing the historical person (as opposed to the eternal Qur'anic man) on screen is arguably the single most important event allowing Iranians access to modernity.

For me, when I get knocked down, I really try to get back up and go at it again. I don't like to give up.

I do for one full hour non-stop of 2,000 sit ups and then 6 sets of leg rise.

You have to apply yourself because you'll never get a better opportunity than the one you have right now. Having said that, people know by now if they like me or not. I don't need to prove anything.

In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent.