If I'd proposed solving the pension problem by compulsory euthanasia for every fifth pensioner I'd have got less trouble for it.

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.

When we choose to live a heart-centered life, we've chosen to live in the Light.

If your ears are bigger than your mouth, you will go very far in life.

Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them.

Where there is no vision the people perish.

My idea of management is that what your job is as the boss is to find really good people and empower them and leave them alone.

I just wanna be a rock star!

My old manager of the Irish National Theatre said 'Don't worry about being a star, just worry about being a working actor. Just keep working.' I think that's really good advice.

The movie business is based on criminals. Some of them are in movies and some of them make movies.

Biological age is the key component of the aging process.

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.