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.

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.

In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees...Strangers are like friends

Faith is the fountain of prayer and prayer should be nothing else but faith exercised.

It is better to own 10% of an elephant than 100% of a rat.

To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.

I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.

The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.

One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.

Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated,?which is an excellent thing.