Yes, I feel I've got something to say. If people want to listen, that's great, and if they don't, that's their choice.

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.

Out of suffering comes creativity

In life things often go wrong, and the future rarely happens the way you think it will.

Bells ringing with no soundLaughter with no voiceHappiness lost without being foundMaking love with no noise

I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat.

Passion pursues; love surrenders.

We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish.

I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.

Fiction is empathy technology.

The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.