“The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!”

Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations.

I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.

We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.

Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.

Something as curious as the monarchy won’t survive unless you take account of people’s attitudes. After all, if people don’t want it, they won’t have it.

It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.

I find myself born into this particular position. I’m determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them.

All the time I feel I must justify my existence.

Any difficulties which the world faces today will be as nothing compared to the full effects which global warming will have on the world-wide economy.

I learned the way a monkey learns – by watching its parents.

As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration of the actual facts and ideals of the period.

The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.

Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ.

There is very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land.

If you think about your and my grandchildren, this is what really worries me. I don’t want them – if I’m still alive by then – to say, ‘Why didn’t you do something about it?’, when you could have done.

Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.

The squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material.

The strong and undeniable fundamentals of low-cost clean energy and the cheapest petrochemical feed-stocks in the world will prevail we believe and we’re seeing the demand pool beginning to grow.

A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.

It makes you feel cheap and guilty when you didn’t do a thing in the world to kindle the dull burn in your veins or the sting in your eyes.

Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.

My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.

Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.