I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.

And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.

I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.

On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

You love someone, you've got to let something go.

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

Difficult times revel true friends but also the unfaithful in your life. Be attentive always, but especially during tough times.

Tread lightly on your partner’s heart. It was given to you for safekeeping.

My faith experience, well, as you can imagine, you need a lot of faith to raise five boys.

Actors are inherently self-centered.

Nobody expects a footballer to have any kind of an IQ, which is a bit of an unfair stereotype.

I am not playing Wimbledon because I am allergic to grass.

Only men who are capable of saying Thou [an attitude of deep respect] to one another can truly say we with one another.

I think music is a big, big wide world, and I am voyager on this particular ship in this sea of wild music, and I'm gonna dive in and find as many fish as I can and catch them all. I love music.

Communicating a passionate response to world events is no longer limited to protests and rallies.

Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't like change.