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It's always nice to have somebody on your side.

We are not the technology. It should be our - you know, our slave, the technology. But it's rapidly becoming our master in many areas, I think.

For me, Lord Mountbatten represented the grandfather I never had.

The medieval Islamic world, from Central Asia to the shores of the Atlantic, was a world where scholars and men of learning flourished. But because we have tended to see Islam as the enemy of the West, as an alien culture, society, and system of belief, we have tended to ignore or erase its great relevance to our own history.

We can halt the destruction of the world's rainforests - and even restore parts of them - in order to ensure that the forests do what they are so good at - in other words, storing carbon naturally.

I think I can safely say that, as adolescents, most people have excess energy to spare and need adventure, excitement, and a challenge.

As long as I do not take myself too seriously, I should not be too badly off.

Congratulations to 'Countdown' - it was an evening I will never forget - and a special thank you to Molly Meldrum.

The whole of the 20th century has always put the car at the center. So by putting the pedestrian first, you create these livable places, I think, with more attraction and interest and character.

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.

There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.

I have often thought that one of the less attractive traits of various professional bodies and institutions is the deeply ingrained suspicion and outright hostility which can exist towards anything unorthodox or unconventional.

There is an old show business saying which warns never to work with animals or children, but nobody prepared me for Molly Meldrum.

The mistake is to think that clever technology can solve everything, but it can't solve our relationship with nature, which is where I think it's gone wrong in that we have somehow abandoned our proper connection with nature.

All my life, people have been telling me what to do. I'm tired of it. My private life has become an industry.

Extremism is no more the monopoly of Islam than it is the monopoly of other religions, including Christianity.

We need to be realistic. There is very little we can do now to stop the ice from disappearing from the North Pole in the summer. And we probably cannot prevent the melting of the permafrost and the resulting release of methane. In addition, I fear that we may be too late to help the oceans maintain their ability to absorb carbon dioxide.

Perhaps it has been too uncomfortable for those with vested interests to acknowledge, but 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.

We would never comment on private correspondence.

It's always marvelous to have somebody who, you know, you feel understands and wants to encourage.

I'd rather go by bus.