Addiction is not shameful. It is a disease.

I found there were things about religion that I really loved; things like the sense of gratefulness that it brings.

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

You can't get any braver than going on national television to be weighed.

Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.

Cosmic systems intertwine, astral bodies drip like wine, all of nature ebbs and flows. Comets shoot across the sky, can't explain the reasons why, this is how creation goes.

Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark and grim, who try over and over again, who are never discouraged by insults, humiliation and even defeat.

I am now considered such a monster, that I hesitate to darken with my shadow, the doors of those I love, lest I should bring upon them misfortune.

I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I wasn't a bit scared. But a four foot putt scares me to death.