Don't let what you think you know get in the way of learning what you don't know.

Smart is what you learn from others. Wise is what you learn from yourself.

You may look tough, but being weak-hearted still makes you weak.

Why should conversation always be so much more coherent than experience?

If you knew how cowardly your enemy is you would slap him. Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice in the enemy.

Loved with obsessive devotion, hated with barely controlled fury.

Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.

I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.

I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.

I'll probably always be 'Timothy Spall's son' and it's something I'm proud of. Maybe one day as well as that, they'll say of Timothy Spall that 'He's Rafe Spall's dad'.

The problem with this world is that there isn't enough liberty and freedom.

We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.

It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.