“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

“Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.”

“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”

“Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.”

“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”

“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”