Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

I had no plans of any destination. I wish to flow like a river.

Water is sufficient...the spirit moves over water.

My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you can't recall it, forget it).

There is a massive ecosystem that has to get built that looks like a biosphere. And the various parts of that biosphere better be there.

We are only as blind as we want to be.

If anyone thinks Indian Muslims will dance to their tune, they are delusional. Indian Muslims will live for India. They will die for India. They will not want anything bad for India.

I'm just an enormous British comedy fan.