Every generation of children has its private hero.

I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be.

The outfits come and go but there is a constant that I like about the catwalk model: the snotty expression.

If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.

My eyebrows could do with a trim.

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

I see my large nose, like half an avocado. I broke it falling downstairs when I was six, and it now resembles a large blob of play-dough.

It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.

An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.

The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

She didn’t know how this ended, she just knew that it needed to, one way or another.

We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.

I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

You can't turn a "no" to a "yes" without a "maybe" in between.

Symmetry may have its appeal but it is inherently stale. Some kind of imbalance is behind every transformation.

It's not about how much you do, but how much love you put into what you do that counts. Life isn't worth living, unless lived for other people.

Take a favorite trick of yours and write a 'gestures script' how could you improve clarity [using gestures].

Vibrancy is only as effective as the mastering of restraint.

A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.