There will be no peace in our world without an understanding of the place of religion within 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 you get to the end of the rainbow, you haven't even started yet.

Home?' I say. It's a word that can mean anywhere and nowhere.

Hang Mortmain," said Will. "And I mean that literally, of course, but also figuratively.

Lots of leaders want to be popular. I never cared about that. I want to be respected.

You never put her in your heart.

It is very unusual for a country to ask guys who are not politicians to come and run the country.

The endless chatter of this journey had wearied me.

The door to the invisible must be visible.

If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.

One of the things that's great is that Batman is a character that lends himself to very personal stories.