Generally, we admire the thing we are not.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

As a way of getting in touch with my originsevery night I set the alarm clockfor the time I was born so that waking upbecomes a historical reenactment and the first thing I do

Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.

I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television.

When you live in a leading lady's body, which I do, you have to constantly prove that you are funny.

When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved

Public shaming is a blood sport that has to stop.

I'd compare myself to Zinedine Zidane... a humble guy who just happened to be the best

Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd! Do not allow your net to be torn, help us to be servants of unity!

A true healer helps you to remember and reconnect consciously with your inner light.