I saw people rise out of poverty right in front of me. ... It made me believe that the market was the most powerful tool for change that we could hope to have.

Fair Trade is all about improving lives, but we don't do that through charity - there is no hand out in the Fair Trade movement. People are solving their own problems through Fair Trade.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

My teacher, Josef Gingold, a student of the French school, always loved the music of Saint-Saens and Henri Vieuxtemps and all the French repertoire.

It was the game that put the Everton ship back on the road.

You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself.

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.

It's a tiny industry. Actors all know each other to a point where you always know someone who knows the other person who worked with them.

Somehow reading a book never feels like sitting still.

Some people seem to be at peace-but in fact they're just resting up between fights.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.