If we don't harness their potential for good, their societies will continue to reap their capacity for evil.

Where you are born should not dictate your potential as a human being.

The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made it, so other people can make it as well.

I think that one of the benefits of optimism and idealism is that they lead you into things you would never have tried if you'd let yourself imagine how hard it was going to turn out to be.

Money follows interest, and interest is largely driven by media attention, which is more easily captured by the drama of conflict than by peace.

Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I remember that reading S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders' sparked my interest in writing.

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

I did Scottish footballer of the year this year, attempted to do some comedy at that. Not the brightest people in the world. There were seven O-Levels in that room, and they were all mine.

It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.

Reason bases its decisions on evidence available to everyone, and allows people to disagree when evidence is lacking. Religion will never do that.

Football at it's best is a game of beauty and intelligence.

How do we live in a way that shows an understanding that we genuinely live in a shared world, not one that simply belongs to us?

Everyone loves a good singsong, so we all do a bit of karaoke or something.

Be just, and fear not.