Deeper fulfilment is rather different from the happiness of seeing a good film or watching your team win at football, and it doesn't come at the push of a button.

Adelaide is becoming a hub for higher education.

All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.

Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do.

As the Internet of things advances, the very notion of a clear dividing line between reality and virtual reality becomes blurred, sometimes in creative ways.

The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.

The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices.

Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.

Bangalore has become a centre for healthcare.

The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs.

All innovation is about letting go, saying goodbye to things to create space for the new.

Just a little loving kindness is sometimes all anyone really needs.

I have found that winning isn't everything, and, in fact, in the relationships I most care about, it isn't anything.

... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.

I have been blessed with a good, fun, and wonderful life, but I've also seen a whole lot of pain.

I will never leave the theater. My heart is there and I love being on stage eight times a week.

How could you even dream or think something of someone who is as uncommercial as I am?

How long has it been since you took your children, whatever their size, in your arms and told them that you love them and are glad that they can be yours forever?

Ian paused and leaned closer to me so that I couldn't seem to see anything around his face, just snow and sapphire and ink.

Of course the entire planet Earth consists of magma under us, and only the very inner-core is different.