Children are the most honest critics. They will say 'You're funny', but also 'You're pathetic - go away.'

People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'

Money can't buy you love, but it can get you some really good chocolate ginger biscuits.

Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.

You’re not an adult at all - you're just a tall child holding a beer, having conversations you don't understand...

Don't do it! Stay away from your potential. You'll mess it up, it's potential, leave it. Anyway, it's like your bank balance - you always have a lot less than you think.

I'm quite a compulsive person-I only worked this out recently - I'm compulsive, but I'm also very indecisive. I don't know what I want, but I know that I want it now.

Oh how I hate you. I hate you so much it gives me energy. I have to get up early in the morning just to hate you, because there's not enough time in the day! Please GO AWAY!

I don't do drugs. If I want a rush I just stand up when I'm not expecting it.

I think you should, yeah. You should wash your beard, then shave it off, nail it to a Frisbee and fling it over a rainbow.

You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up.

You trusted me enough to jump off the wall, and I caught you.

True compassion sees each person as a brother or sister and acts accordingly.

When we find out Who He (Jesus) is, then we find out who we are and it forever settles what we believe.

I was just sick of being fat, you know? You get sick of it. It just really, it's a tiring lifestyle to have.

Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light.

The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers.

Room 10 [a short film she codirected with Andrea Buchanan] nailed my personal theme: love and choosing to stay in the room when the going gets tough.

Let each one of us not waste electricity at home. By doing this, we will also light a lamp in the home of a poor.

Man is constantly building anxiety-structures, like geodesic domes, around his social and religious institutions.

The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?