I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people.

Everybody thinks I drink beer but I actually like cider!

I have to say that I thought search-and-rescue duties over Snowdonia were physically and mentally demanding, but looking after a 3-week-old baby is up there!

There's been a lot of speculation about every single girl I'm with and it actually does quite irritate me after a while, more so because it's a complete pain for the girls.

I'm probably a bit of a cheeky grandson, like my brother as well. We both take the mickey a bit too much.

My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.

That which holds our attention determines our action.

As I learned from growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother.

People say it's not ambitious, but it is actually quite ambitious wanting to help people.

He's a blockhead who wants a proof of what he cannot perceive. And he's a fool a fool who tries to make such a blockhead believe.

The thing is with me I look on the brighter side of everything.There's no point being pessimistic or being worried about too many things because frankly life's too short.

To leave is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Given free rein, our imagination can get infinite.

By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.

Failure doesn't have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person.

I had nothing to fear from my father. Except his disappointment. Which was no small thing.

I think people's relationship with the concept of violence changes, and that to me might be a little more interesting.

Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.

Having an education is one thing, being educated is another.

The only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.

People tell you keep your job, start the company on the side. If I'm doing it on the side, then probably one of the reasons it fails is because I didn't dedicate enough time to it.