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

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.

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.

It was interesting the way a small hate could grow inside a big hate and take it over.

You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.

Every time we love, we increase our capacity to be hurt.

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

Whoever reflects recognizes that there are empty and lonely spaces between one’s experiences.

Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.

I'm very comfortable with the fact that there's only one person in charge of the Trump administration. It's President Donald Trump.

Life is as complex as we are. Sometimes our vulnerability is our strength, our fear develops our courage, and our woundedness is the road to our integrity. It is not an either/or world.

I have learnt to be even more patient.

Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.