It is better to ride a pony than a horse which throws you.
I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.
I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.
To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.
Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past.
Sometimes it takes a crisis for people to agree that what is obvious and should have been done years ago, can no longer be postponed. . . . We must create a new international financial architecture for the global age.
Britain does not want a return to boom and bust.
My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.
Like a trail that a snail leaves in its wake as it inches forward, over the years an architect leaves behind a body of work, generated by the attitudes he gradually accumulates towards the agendas he deals with
Stop sitting there with your hands folded looking on, doing nothing; Get into action and live this full and glorious life. Now. You have to do it.
A Toad, can die of Light - Death is the Common Right Of Toads and Men