You wouldn't be human if you didn't feel both a sense of responsibility and a deep sadness for those who have lost their lives.

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.

Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.

The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and of responsible government.

Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.

For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

A studio, like a poem, is an intimacy and a freedom you can look out from, into each part of your life and a little beyond.

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Put your expectations on God, not on people.

Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.

One should always be happy, irrespective of what you achieve in a match or in life. That's how I live my life.