Prince Charles

“Extremism is no more the monopoly of Islam than it is the monopoly of other religions, including Christianity.”

“The whole of nature cries out at our mistreatment of her. If the planet were a patient, we would have treated her long ago.”

“You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.”

“I think I can safely say that, as adolescents, most people have excess energy to spare and need adventure, excitement, and a challenge.”

“I have often thought that one of the less attractive traits of various professional bodies and institutions is the deeply ingrained suspicion and outright hostility which can exist towards anything unorthodox or unconventional.”

“Women are not automatically second-class citizens because they live in Islamic countries. We cannot judge the position of women in Islam aright if we take the most conservative Islamic states as representative of the whole.”

“Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ.”

“The medieval Islamic world, from Central Asia to the shores of the Atlantic, was a world where scholars and men of learning flourished. But because we have tended to see Islam as the enemy of the West, as an alien culture, society, and system of belief, we have tended to ignore or erase its great relevance to our own history.”

“The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.”

“I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.”

“We can halt the destruction of the world's rainforests - and even restore parts of them - in order to ensure that the forests do what they are so good at - in other words, storing carbon naturally.”

“The whole of the 20th century has always put the car at the center. So by putting the pedestrian first, you create these livable places, I think, with more attraction and interest and character.”

“Perhaps it has been too uncomfortable for those with vested interests to acknowledge, but we have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.”

“It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything - until, that is, it comes to climate science.”

“As long as I do not take myself too seriously, I should not be too badly off.”

“There is an old show business saying which warns never to work with animals or children, but nobody prepared me for Molly Meldrum.”

“I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.”

“I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.”

“We would never comment on private correspondence.”

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