To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.

Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.

The most intense hatreds are not between political parties but within them.

While sticks and stones break bones, words can never hurt? Manifestly untrue. Politics everywhere are holistic, interconnected, and the rhetoric of right or left can produce toxic atmospheres in which lunacy thrives.

The events of September 11 were carried out by people armed not with weapons of mass destruction, but with blades you can buy at a newsagent

Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people

Unless you are willing to try, fail miserable, and try again, success won't happen.