People talk about the businesses of the future needing to be more agile and more responsive if they are to be successful. But this requires a deep change in the way organisations work.

Privacy isn't dead, although it is fashionable for digerati to say so.

At the tail end of the great global boom, their old richer consumers are behaving more like new poorer ones, also increasingly concerned about cost, quality, and safety.

We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey. But even in failure, we can trust that He’ll do more than we expect.

Was he seeking shelter from death? Malcolm could not have that.

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

Music is like a huge release of tension.

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

It was [meeting with Nicolas Sarkozy] like looking at my mirror image.

The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.

You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it.

You gotta win. That's all it takes.

One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.