This was one of those special occasions when I could actually feel the inner appreciation of the beauty of the moment passing like an electric current through the brush in my hand.

. . . a jostling scrum of office buildings so mediocre that the only way you ever remember them is by the frustration they induce - like a basketball team standing shoulder to shoulder between you and the Mona Lisa.

Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?

One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it's spawned, is climate change and drought.

The sustainability revolution will, hopefully, be the third major social and economic turning point in human history, following the Neolithic Revolution - moving from hunter-gathering to farming - and the Industrial Revolution

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now.