There is nothing like waking up at six in the morning and changing a baby's nappy to bring you face to face with life's reality.

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.

If something’s existence is contingent upon the existence of another entity, can we truthfully call them separate beings?

If there are no barriers to cross or demons to slay to reach the desired destination, we will not call it a success.

I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.

When the time is yours, the future is waiting, The person you become, and the people you're creating.

Most players don't mind drug testing once they realize they don't have to study for it.

As people used to be wrong about the motion of the sun, so they are still wrong about the motion of the future. The future stands still, it is we who move in infinite space.

What matters is working with a few close friends, people you respect, knowing that if times did turn bad these people would hold together.

We checked carefully the international law - what does a nation do when terrorists are using civilians to defend their life, as a shelter. And they say you do not have a choice.

You're dealing immense, acute amounts of fear, which makes the rest of life a little bit easier. You don't sweat the small stuff so much.

Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.