When I address admitted students each spring, I ask them to consider two questions: Why would Harvard be the right place for the person I am? Why would it be the right place for the person that I want to become? These questions, in my mind, get at the heart of any admissions process.

I am very pro-royal. Britain without them would be a sadder place.

I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.

There is no right time and right place for love... it can happen any time.

I never planned my career. I never planned to be president of Harvard. People would have thought I was crazy, probably, at the age of 8 or 10 or 20, if I had said that. So what I would say to people planning their careers is to be ready to improvise. Be ready to follow up on opportunities as they unfold.

Maybe I see myself with kids, given the right place and right moment, with the right person.