You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles - people nearly always pick a problem their own size, and ignore or leave to others the bigger or smaller ones.

The only real training for leadership is leadership.

The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.

In corporation [corporate] religions as in others, the heretic must be cast out not because of the probability that he is wrong but because of the possibility that he is right.

There is this great idea about the logic of a politician, along the lines of: "Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles... Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.

Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.

Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.

He’s suffering from Politician’s Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.

It's very expensive to be me. It's terrible the things I have to do to be me.

The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.

I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.

Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.

When the heart becomes empty, the mimbar of the Divine Oneness is placed therein and the sultan of gnosis sits upon it.

Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.

Hemingway's talent was so outsized, that I feel like I can forgive him a lot of his trespasses to have achieved what he did achieve.

If things are going slow, I'm itchy.

The key to happiness is the decision to be happy