You need to train yourself to be comfortable with silence, particularly when dealing with cultures that respect silence more than we do in the West.

Great Leaders develop through a never ending process of self-study, self-reflection, education, training, and experience

Essential to time-management is a change in focus, a change from being ‘busy’ to a focus on outcomes

People who lack confidence in their judgement lack confidence in themselves

Service introduces you to the leadership throne. Service to mankind is the vision on which leadership is mounted. You serve and in your service, you train more leaders by becoming an example!

Suffocation is a cruel way to go.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Of course we need to show we are a genuine alternative to an unpopular, Conservative-led government. But we need to set ourselves a higher standard than a party offering anger like UKIP.

If we're going to be friends let's get one thing straight right now. I hate snoops.

I’m like the child who buries her head in the pillow so as not to see, the child who tells herself that light causes sadness—

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.