Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.

I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.

By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential.

I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am going to express something or how we are going to make the visual metaphor.

It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress.

Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.

I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get repeated publicity.

Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.

A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left.

My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time.

I went to school with butterflies of fear every day for years - from primary school onwards - not just worried about being bullied by classmates, but by teachers.

The vampire's eyes were open, and he was staring at her intently. It was as though he were trying to speak to her with simply the power of a glare.Alexia did not speak glare-ish.

When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language or music without atmosphere.

You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best

A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence.

If you have but a single ruler, you lie at the discretion of a master who has no reason to love you: and if you have several, you must bear at once their tyranny and their divisions.

It is difficult to thinkof any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible.

The tougher the times, the more clarity you gain about the difference between what really matters and what you only pretend to care about.

I've always tried to - when I've been able to - support young artists, no matter what medium.

Pierce Brosnan is a very sweet man. Oh, we had our issues, but a lot of it was hormones.