"What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked."

"I am quite strict as a dad but I don't want to be censorious."

"When I became leader, I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don't like comfort-zone politics."

"I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more."

"I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli."

"We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided governments, philanthropies and private enterprises for decades and replace it with networks of partnerships working together to create a globally prosperous society."

"The biggest problem for me was feeling that as I became more balanced and a better man that I wouldn't have the fire to create from."

"What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real."