Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self- importance.
For many years I hoped to have an exhibition in China, because of my family connection.
It is very important to develop the thing that you are naturally good at, that you are truly interested in.
If I did not love the things that I do, how could I spend my life doing this? You have to invest what you spend your life doing with pleasure.
Today, in British education, we don't have that kind of freedom. Now there are many regulations, many rules, and bureaucracies in the education system. So, it doesn't have the flexibility that it had in the '60s, '70s, '80s.
The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.
In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
There's something about Saint Francis's approach to life, zero expectations but pleasant surprise. In a lot of ways he was a really conflicted person. Some people would say he's masochistic. I don't really know, but I've always loved his reverence and his mindfulness.
Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.