Quotes from Prince Charles

All the time I feel I must justify my existence.

We are not the technology. It should be our - you know, our slave, the technology. But it's rapidly becoming our master in many areas, I think.

I'd rather go by bus.

For me, Lord Mountbatten represented the grandfather I never had.

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

On an increasingly crowded planet, humanity faces many threats - but none is greater than climate change. It magnifies every hazard and tension of our existence.

I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.

We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it.

We need to be realistic. There is very little we can do now to stop the ice from disappearing from the North Pole in the summer. And we probably cannot prevent the melting of the permafrost and the resulting release of methane. In addition, I fear that we may be too late to help the oceans maintain their ability to absorb carbon dioxide.

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

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

Forests are the world's air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.

Your greatest achievement is to love me.

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

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

If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight away.

Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.

The mistake is to think that clever technology can solve everything, but it can't solve our relationship with nature, which is where I think it's gone wrong in that we have somehow abandoned our proper connection with nature.

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

I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.

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

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.

To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make.

Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.