"The spark of ambition becomes a blaze of accomplishment only through disciplined persistence. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The art of living is discovering that the purest joy is found in giving without expectation."

"Never underestimate the power of the journey is far more important than the destination."

"It is a profound truth that the stoutest timber is forged in the fiercest gales, not in the sheltered grove."

"He who seeks peace must remember that a mind at peace can weather any storm."

"The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself."

"Every summit scaled was once thought insurmountable from the valley below. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic."