Massive progress has been made in the last five years. More progress has to be made in terms of fiscal union and banking union.

Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled.

To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It’s about stimulating them. It’s about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.

Think about it. Women control 70 percent of global consumer spending . . . when women do better, economies do better.

All stakeholders must participate in the gains and losses of any particular situation.

If Lehman Brothers had been a bit more Lehman Sisters ... we would not have had the degree of tragedy that we had as a result of what happened.

I learned that you can constantly improve, and that you should not be shy about your views, and about the direction that you believe is right.

If inflation is the genie, then deflation is the ogre that must be fought decisively.

The financial industry is a service industry. It should serve others before it serves itself.

Social unrest and protectionism are the two major risks of the world economic crisis.

We cannot just look at a country by looking at charts, graphs, and modelling the economy. Behind the numbers there are people.

I still smell your absence on my skin. It smells of insomnia and rusted key locks...

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

Isn't corn like a meat or something?

The is a way to attract and there's another way to honour to keep. Learn both

I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.

Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!

Thank you to BBC6 Music and Something Else for the opportunity to broadcast my corner of electronic and alternative music across the airwaves for the last 6 years. #‎ RIP6MIX

Aunt Petunia often said that Dudley looked like a baby angel — Harry often said that Dudley looked like a pig in a wig.

The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.

But hushed be every thought that springs From out the bitterness of things.