There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.

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.

By the time we began to understand enough about what the world to ask the right questions, our visit is over, and someone else is visiting, asking the same questions.

I don't belong to the masses, I've been against the masses all my life, and I'm not in favour of dogs.

Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

I'm at the point in my career where to be a winner is more important than any individual things.

In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.

Apparently they're going to bring in 'Super Asbos'. But 'Asbos' already sound too cool. Teenagers see them as a badge of honour. They should call them 'Gaybos' or 'Bender Badges'.

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away.