I have days of self-doubt, but I think the kindest thing I can do to myself is accept where my body is at.

'Spice Girls' is about unifying the world - every age, every gender, everyone. It's woman power, it's an essence, a tribe.

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

I love being on the beach - it's my favourite place. I can chill out, read, listen to music, play with my daughter.

Becoming a solo singer is like going from an eau de toilette to a perfume. It's much more intense.

Step by step, the road is long, but at the end you can touch a star.

Being mean about other people isn't on my radar.

We hope for the future, then we reach for the past.

In school nativity plays I was always the bloody little donkey, I was never Mary.

It's important to learn to laugh at ourselves. Don't take life too seriously.

Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself.

We don't own life, we live under a rental agreement which can be terminated at anytime without notice.

For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to confirm the brothers in the faith.

Gooseberries should be mainstream berries! Why are chemically fattened strawberries a thing? Why not the delicious gooseberry?

Never quit, you have to resist to the utmost. 'Til you drop, like a Samurai

Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them.

If you were back in the Cretaceous Period - the last of the time of the dinosaurs - and you were driving from New York to Philadelphia on the New Jersey Turnpike, you would be driving across water.

One thing I discovered is that the book world is vast. It's easy to walk around the store - even the room with literature and poetry, where I work most often - and feel overwhelmed.

Matt Damon is a great actor, and he's from Boston, so we've got a few things in common. I've seen him throw a football, though. He definitely needs to work on that.

Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.