Having children is fab. They keep me young and make me get up in the morning.

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion

You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.

The thing I thought about doing it was it's Comic Relief and you've got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you can't sing.

People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.

I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.

A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

There are two types of people in this world: one who opens a packet of biscuits, has one and puts the rest back in the cupboard, and one who eats the whole packet in one go.

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.

You have to know your goal to reach out for it.

‎Without a knowledge of where words come from, things disappear, history is lost.

It's not the content, but the form of thought that counts.

As the pace of the campaign quickened, politics began to clash with Kennedy's innate sense of responsibility. – Arthur Schlesinger

You do not need to fly to the other side of the planet to find wilderness and beauty.

A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.

My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife.

You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.

It is your passion that empowers you to be able to do that thing you were created to do.