I don't know any kid that's not afraid at some point going to bed with the lights off, totally. That's why they make nightlights.

The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.

The more you are positive and say: "I want to have a good life." The more you build that reality for yourself; by creating the life that you want.

I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you.

It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.

I do like dating cynics - they tend to be incredibly funny.

Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.

I'm more cerebral than I want to be.

One thing that I do find really sexy is a girl who's good at crossword puzzles.

My nipples could cut glass.

People lie. Promises are broken. A

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It's already happening, and it's hot!

The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.

A frontier is never a place; it is a time and a way of life.

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

Taxi drivers are the ones who pay me the most attention. They seem to be into River Cottage and have a dream of moving to the country, so I have chats with them.

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.