Ever since I can remember feeling love for my parents, I've been frightened of losing them.

Cuba is such a beautiful country, and everywhere you go, there's music and people dancing - especially in Havana.

I do believe in an afterlife. I try to be at one with people and try to love life as much as I can.

I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveller.

I am always baffled by age, but to be honest with you, I feel like I am about 34. I feel better now and I am certainly healthier than I was in my early 30s. I am more rounded too.

I'm on a constant path of self-discovery and change. I'm trying to become a better person, a nicer person. I love therapy - it's brilliant.

I am extremely content in my life - sometimes to the point where I really should find something to moan about!

I think it's healthy to be insecure, to have nerves.

My dad's so likeable, you wouldn't feel in competition with him. If any boyfriends have ever felt that, they're long gone.

Being a mum is something that's never bothered me too much. I have never felt a strong need to have children, but I am not averse to it either.

It's very hard to dramatise something factual and not make it look overdone, but also not to make it look so under-dramatised that it's dull.

So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?

Courage is not having the strength to go on

Courage is like magic, courage vanishes crisis.

It is only when one knows the unutterability of the name of God that one can utter the name of Jesus Christ

A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.

Man is messy, but any creature that can create space vehicles can probably cope.

There are three types of golf: golf, tournament golf and Major championship golf.

The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.

The. World. Is. Not. A. Safe. Place.

The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of trying to understand them and to learn from them.