I smile at every circumstance that comes my way because I don't expected life to be an easy journey.

Death belongs only to God. What right have men to lay hands on a thing so unknown?

I used to move gracefully. I used to know the word grace to the center of my bones. Now I seek it every day and fall short, inevitably, every day. I lost grace.

Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.

You want to invite new ideas, not new rules.

I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life.

It always stings a little bit when somebody doesn't like what you put out there, or at least it does for me. I don't take it too much to heart, and it doesn't change anything.

Something you hear a lot is that feminism dead. But if feminism is dead, why do people try so hard to kill it?

I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party.

A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus of stone.

Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant.