"You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance."

"I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes."

"I trust the people."

"Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law."

"Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse this is not what Americans do, these are not our values."

"To live with purpose is to leave the world a little gentler than you found it. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on."

"He who seeks peace must remember that a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."