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It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.

It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus.

If we all understood we can learn from both older and younger people, then we'd have a better world.

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

What I'm trying to do is get a change in the mindset so people move from a level of mere tolerance to total acceptance and eventually to celebrate diversity. If you feel comfortable with one another, it doesn't matter whether we live in which neighbourhood but we can interact with one another freely. It's a mindset.

We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.

Diversity really means becoming complete as human beings - all of us. We learn from each other. If you're missing on that stage, we learn less. We all need to be on that stage.

When you've got a society that is diverse, what happens is for a time, the issue is integrating your minorities into that society.

We've known for a long time, and I think culturally we've accepted, that diversity is an important thing in the work of knowledge.

As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.