I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, and the respect for the wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.

Don't judge me, you could be me in another life.

A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

Nothing in your life is beyond redemption.

Let your soul be your pilot.

Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach.

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

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.

I was absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.

We don't, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.

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

I think we'd be very foolish to expect that we can just import everything from somewhere else and imagine that that's going to last for ever and ever and ever

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

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

We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now.

Your greatest achievement is to love me.

One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it's spawned, is climate change and drought.

If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.