Cooperating with foreign services like yours is absolutely crucial but I think reading and writing and debating and just thinking is the first essential step.

BBC: Breakfast with Frost

These are life skills, not just academic skills, and it is the quality of writing and thinking that separates employees with identical technical skill sets.

FORBES: Colleges Shouldn't Be Jittery About Students Who Are Twittery

Now Vicky - she's the wife, you'll remember - is apparently thinking of writing a book with the help of Isabel who wrote the story in the Sunday Times.

BBC: Chris Huhne: A family affair

They push the boundaries of everything and that'll be done on the weekend so we are definitely not writing them off and we're definitely not thinking this is an easy game.

BBC: Gough predicts Tigers 'slug-fest'

The Director-General said that she understood these concerns and believed that part of the issue was due to some misunderstandings: she had indeed been consulting the Board on some of her thinking in regard particularly to reorganizations involving GBS, which is why nothing had been presented in writing.

UNESCO: Paris, 11.12.2012