On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn't about charity, it's about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice is an unstoppable idea.

(...) being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego is so tied to being right that later on in life you are reluctant to accept that you are ever wrong, because you are defending not the idea but your self-esteem. (...) this terror of being wrong means that people have enormous difficulties in changing ideas.

The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.

Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.

Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway - we just disguise them as logic.

Perception is real even when it is not reality.

Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.