The virtue and the strength of UWC is that it provides small, but powerful cells of innovation, catalysts for change, breaking barriers of habit and opening broader vistas of experience for both pupils and educationalists.

Those who can't imagine change reveal the deficits of their imaginations, not the difficulty of change.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

I feel like a young man of 15.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Appearances matter — and remember to smile.

It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. For historians, academics, writers and journalists to reflect great lives according to their own subjective canon.