“I think we’re going to find, with climate change and everything else, things like global warming and goodness knows what else and the cost of fuel for a start, that things are going to become very complicated.”

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.

Be neither too remote nor too familiar.

It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything – until, that is, it comes to climate science.

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

Music has the power to move us and change the world.

Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

Each moment that passes changes you. You can’t even own yourself. How can you ever hope to own anyone or anything else.

In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that way.

We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.

For things to change, you have to change. For things to get better, you have to get better. For things to improve, you have to improve. When you grow, everything in your life grows with you.

Your growth scares people who don’t want to change.