The need for a global structure of control in the form of a world environment court is now more urgent than ever before.

It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient.

I don't really want to retire. I intend to go on working as long as I can because I still have a huge amount of energy.

I was in Yorkshire. We were a family of five and I used to be sent sometimes to get the rations for the week and was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of tea.

Everything, every part that you approach has to be somehow rooted in yourself. You have to somehow root everything so that it's not just words coming out of you.

People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I'm always fearful. … Fear generates in you a huge energy. You can use it. When I feel that mounting fear, I think, 'Oh, yes, there it is!' It's like petrol.