Be neither too remote nor too familiar.

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.

Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.

Conservation must become before recreation.

If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight away.

Grandparenthood is a unique moment in anyone's life, as countless kind people have told me in recent months, so I am enormously proud and happy to be a grandfather for the first time and we are eagerly looking forward to seeing the baby in the near future.

A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants.