It's not enough simply to wear the badge of corporate responsibility. Business must accept that real change is the only response to climate change and other environmental crises

Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are

The future will be green, or not at all. This truth lies at the heart of humankind's most pressing challenge: to learn to live in harmony with the Earth on a genuinely sustainable basis.

The future will be green, or not at all

If something is sustainable, it means we can go on doing it indefinitely. If it isn't, we can't

Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than a very short-lived spasm of spurious prosperity

We're never going to scare people into living more sustainably! We have to be able to demonstrate just how dynamic and aspirational such a world could be

Keeping people on side is a precondition of making any progress on sustainability issues

Climate change is not an environmental issue, but much more to do with security and economics

I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how many children they think are appropriate.

We are now running out of time, and the question now is not what is happening to the climate, but how bad will it be before the world starts doing enough?

Be and Do what it takes to Have superb results. Nurture a mindset that works for you, rather than against you. Your inner thoughts determine your outer world.

If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: Never lie to yourself!

For me painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night a strangled laugh.

I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.

Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.

Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so.

Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!

No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.

At best, I think of a director as a magnet. You get all the metal fillings in all the individual actors and crew, and get those filings moving toward your magnetic direction.

It's very difficult to be original.