Rory Stewart

When my father was posted to Malaysia, we'd take bacon-and-egg sandwiches in our backpacks and go hiking in the jungle or make bamboo rafts to sail down rivers.

When you're doing mountain rescue, you don't take a doctorate in mountain rescue; you look for somebody who knows the terrain. It's about context.

It was a bit of a surprise when I became a Tory MP. My friends said it was a stupid idea.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.

When I see something that I think isn't right, I think I have some kind of, for right or wrong, an obligation to fix it.