I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.

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.

There is only one God and all atheists will learn that after their deaths

If you don't believe in yourself, why should anyone else?

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

What do all my books have in common? A commitment to memory.

I thought eventually I'd have a family and I really didn't want to be a loser like that guy in his 40s still shopping his band's shitty demo tapes around.

When your life is changed by Jesus, you are a new creature. God not only changes what you do, He also changes what you want to do.

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

There is nothing that is more beautiful than everything else in the world.

What excites me is the idea of doing a record that's pretty clean and focused on songs. I've rushed a lot with previous albums and there's not a rush now - it's not a race.

I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.