At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.

The problems that the world faces - from nuclear proliferation to climate change - can't be tackled by the West alone. They need a coalition of not just West and East, but they need a coalition of Christian and Jew and Muslim.

This is nourishing, redemptive we become less alone inside.

I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself.

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.