Environmental damage such as graffiti, fly-posting and general littering is a menace that is becoming all too prevalent, not just in inner cities but in many communities - urban and rural.

One of the reasons I came into politics was because I thought I lacked the skills to be a social worker.

We've known for some time that we have to worry about the impacts of climate change on our children's and grandchildren's generations. But we now have to worry about ourselves as well.

It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural resources than in all previous human history

Many unsustainable behaviours are locked-in and made 'normal', not just by the way that we produce and consume, but by the absence of easy alternatives

The rewards that will flow from a successful shift to a low carbon economy are high. Neither governments nor business can afford to let these opportunities pass them by

You have to make your choice and live with your choice.

My own passion for caravan holidays has been occasionally commented on by the media. It is certainly something that I am proud of.

Today's dialogue has succeeded in reinforcing the need for international partnerships and cooperation in tackling the reality of climate change.

Achieving climate security must be the core of foreign policy. All of us have to pick up the pace.

I don't join or leave things lightly.

Under the stars, I tried to sleep, but for once in my life couldn't.My mutant super power-the ability to nod off at at the drop of a hat, any time, anywhere-had deserted me.

We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.

Argentina is a marvelous place. Argentines are great bankers of information. They import information; if someone sneezes in Milan or in New York, they clean their faces very fast there.

Use the previous techniques in rotation. It will prevent your meditation experience from becoming stale.

I want to be remembered as a guy who's not going to change your life but who is going to change your mood. As a guy who made you smile and say, "I miss him. He was a lot of fun."

The best entrepreneurs never confuse motion with results.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.

I try to operate on two unconnected levels. One on the practical level of action in which I am extremely cautious and conservative. The second is the realm of ideas where I try to be very free

Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds A stream of liberal and heroic deeds; The swell of pity, not to be confined Within the scanty limits of the mind.