Never look back. Move on. Aim high. Etc.

Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.

Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind.

No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

I only take on roles that I'm passionate about. Life is too short to do things that you're not happy with.

If ordinary means I have suddenly got to produce a household of kids and iron Peter's shirts, I'm sorry, I'm not interested.

Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

We need a lot of thinking and ideas. We need all the innovators, particularly with the new sustainable technologies - how do we get them to affordability so that people can generate clean energy?

The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.

From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.

I like pressure. Pressure is good.

I like playing off strong actors, whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I'm a hopeless romantic, so I'm fascinated by relationships.

Examples of hostility toward religious values and those who hold them abound... This antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom.

One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now.

[A cat] will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society.

Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.