I hate the word 'sneering', I can't help the way my face looks.

The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.

Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.

It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.

I voted against Gerald Nabarro in my first general election, but my defiance made no difference. If you had put a Conservative rosette on a mustachioed hamster, it would have been elected.

I got fed up of listening to bollocks

Sharing holiday snaps on social media is an act of arrogant vanity.

Television bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots.

The defining problem of contemporary television is trust: Can you believe what you see on television, does television treat people fairly, is it healthy for society?

It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer.

It would be unforgivable to use the role I have, such as it is, to inflict my incoherent, half-baked view of the world on people. That would be illegitimate and unacceptable and I should be fired.

Fried chicken is my husband's favorite food.

It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts.

Often the answer to our prayer does not come while we're on our knees, but while we're on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us.

Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear.

Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.

"Be courageous and keep moving forward"... that's kind of the mantra that I've tried to keep.

In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning.

Like attracts like, beauty finds beauty, and freaks look on from the smoking section, aching.

The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.

The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.