I rowed for Cambridge. I was pretty good at that.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.

I think that’s the lesson you learn in life. As you get older you realize you’re never going to grow up and you’re never going to be ready. And you may, as well, do things now, don’t wait

Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless

There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now.

Every day is the opportunity for a better tomorrow.

Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out.

May I never dishonour the name of God.

God will not punish you when you speak your mind, because he speaks through you if he truly lives in you.

If you know, say it, and if you don't know, be honest and say you don't know.

Books ... rarely if ever talk about what children can make of themselves about the powers that from the day or moment of birth are present in every child.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

If you got the truth, you put it out there, and everybody says, "Oh, my God. That's me." And then they improvise also. They take off, as well.

An armed society is a free society.

I am willing to release old negative beliefs. They are only thoughts that stand in my way. My new thoughts are positive and fulfilling.

Forget you are a man. Loose the animal you hide inside.

The National Party is a dying party.