We must challenge the hierarchies of the art world constantly.

Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

The whole world is becoming more and more homogenized, and I think it's important to preserve cultural identity.

In a way, I've got some bad news, particularly to anybody who's come to Oxford from abroad. There's a real problem with snobbery, because sometimes people from outside the U.K. imagine that snobbery is a distinctively U.K. phenomenon, fixated on country houses and titles. The bad news is that's not true. Snobbery is a global phenomenon; we area global organization, this is a global phenomenon. What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you, and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

和平不仅仅是没有战争，而是建立一个稳定、公正和可持续的国际秩序。

There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.