If you’re watching this – and you’re a young person, especially – if someone says something that hurts you or angers you, use me as an example of what not to do…Don’t respond with hatred or anger, because you’re just adding more ugliness to the world.

In the past, human progress had to come at the cost of the environment. If we wanted energy, we had to burn wood or we had to burn fossil fuels. If we wanted to grow more food, we had to expand farmland, often at the cost of forests. But technology and innovation means we're very quickly decoupling these impacts, such that this conflict is no longer true.

As for the notion of standing on your own, it’s no longer considered honorable or desirable. It makes you suspect, if not ridiculous.

If you don't know what you're living for, you haven't yet lived.

There’s an interesting trend that occurs in times of mounting pressure and high uncertainty, which is that it’s a natural human tendency to seek out people that agree with us, that are similar to us because it’s a source of comfort in a world that’s so rapidly changing.

I'm still fucking here

Good leaders are always at the ready, but not always at the front.

A society regulated by a public sense of justice is inherently stable.

So I just keep asking myself, ‘Can you love someone who did bad things? Can you still love them?’