When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.

An organsation's results are determined through webs of human commitments, born in webs of human conversations.

Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.

We don't realize how much we create reality through language. If we say that life is hard, it will be hard.

A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

When trust improves, the mood improves.

Hope is the raw material of losers.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

My pragmatic nature, my impatience, will most likely have me drunk on aged spirit by noon.

Ask yourself this question: 'Will this matter a year from now?

He laid into me with the same gusto as a right-wing political pundit on the O'Reilly Factor defending President's Bush right to vacation six days out of the week.

Oasis were like the bullies I had to put up with at school.

The world produces enough food to feed the entire population. It's a travesty that anyone should go hungry anywhere.

We have got a very short time to turn climate change around otherwise we will all die.

I'm a working-class person, working with class.

Michio Kaku and Albert Einstein, they're both so ahead of our time. It's just fascinating to read about them, what their theories are on loopholes and everything else. It's fascinating stuff.

It used to be said of a man who had suffered a catastrophic setback in his line of work that he had been handed his head on a platter. We are being handed our heads with tweezers now.