And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.

And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.

I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.

On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

You love someone, you've got to let something go.

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

Live! Don't just Exist!!! Don't drag through Life...Live each day as a Celebration.-RVM

A heart can only be broken or remain shattered through repeated negative interpretations of a negative experience.

Don't judge someone's attitude until you've felt their pain.

The more obsessively we focus on what a particular food is going to do for us, the less healthy we've become. Simple pleasures become complicated.

If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

Suffice it to say Cherie Snodgrass and I were good friends a long, long time ago. After Mr Snodgrass confronted my wife, the friendship ended and my marriage remained intact.

As it was in the beginning, ... is now, and ever shall be, world without end.

Competitions are what you do as a good exercise.

Have the courage to go against the tide of current values that do not conform to the path of Jesus.

What do you want?' is too imprecise to produce a meaningful and actionable answer.