"Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war."

"You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky."

"I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then."

"Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music."

"I was a smart kid, but I hated school."

"I go to school the youth to learn the future."

"I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher."

"I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with."