Now you may do it badly, you may do it well, some people like you, some people hate you, all the rest of it - but you have got a real motivating life purpose. [on being Prime Minister

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.

One who cannot dance must not blame the song.

To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.

You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.

The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.

We entertain ourselves with worry when we don't know what to trust. When you trust in what remains beyond temporary form, you are trusting in all that you are, as all that is.

How to get a seat at the table: 1. Be excellent. 2. Say a prayer. 3. Be available 4. Be you

A chaplet of leaves crowns the victor.