"I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really."

"London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in a city."

"In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that."

"It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary."

"Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time."

"The river of time washes away kings and empires, leaving only virtue intact. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth."

"I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it."