Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning.

A leader shapes and shares a vision, which gives point to the work of others.

The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.

The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.

In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property.

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do.

Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.

Courage. I need courage. Because this is surely the stupidest idea in the history of guys liking girls.

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.

The more we know about our universe, the more difficult it becomes to believe in determinism.

Sending us Ebola bombs in the form of sweaty Glaswegians just isn't cricket.

The head talks to the heart and the heart talks to the feet.

Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind.