"I sort of feel that climate change will be solved by science. I just feel instinctively that we will find a way of saving ourselves. But I am less confident that we won't destroy ourselves in other ways."

"I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself."

"The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work."

"I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour."

"Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art."

"No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls."

"When you get pure joy out of 'being' rather than 'doing' or 'seeing,' that's when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things."

"I'm happy, I'm in a good place, I'm looking forward to my future."