It depends on the situation. I mean on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.

We've just got to be careful - with all sports let alone cricket - I think there's so much emphasis on doing the right thing all the time but I think the public want to be entertained when they come to watch sport.

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

You know golf is very lonely. When I'm in the States I feel like if I just think about Taiwan my friends my fans I won't feel like I'm alone.

I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.

The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.

I delight in my family obligations but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country.

We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely.

Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first.

I've performed solo for 20 years now but I don't do much of it because if you only play alone you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.

I was born to be alone and I always shall be but now I want to be.

You're alone in your ideas because you're the only one who knows what's possible.

You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50 000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.

It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.

You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders armies don't.

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

Men was formed for society and is neither capable of living alone nor has the courage to do it.

So many people suffer from abuse and suffer alone.

I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s when my career started but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore and people kind of understood that and left me alone.

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

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

This is nourishing redemptive we become less alone inside.

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.

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.