I suppose happiness is something one enjoys, but I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.

You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.

All the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better.

How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and did nothing.

It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the first human being'. We are so self-obsessed with our own history. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.

Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big eyes, tiny nose, we go 'aaah'. That's what evolution does. We are programmed to do that. So to find babies the most amazing, isn't surprising, I don't think.

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.