If you go on stage with an agenda, you have to accept not everyone's going to agree with it.

I don't mind not being cool; I wear a cardigan.

If you want something Scottish, go get yourself a kilt.

I went to China for a brief working visit, and I thought that Shanghai was interesting, but Beijing totally grabbed me.

I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness.

Christians, you and your churches don't get to be millionaires while other people have nothing at all. They're your bloody rules! Either stick to them or abandon the faith.

I have learnt that I am incapable of packing the right amount of clothing, probably because I start 10 minutes before I'm supposed to leave, and that I truly hate airports.

I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.

I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.

My purist comedy friends accuse me of being a Jack of all trades and master of none.

If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

I have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turned upon me.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

To be truly happy you must recognize who you are with nothing.

My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.

You just never know when somebodys gonna die. It could happen at any moment so youve got to really treat everybody that way. Just really let everybody know how you feel about them.

You can't magic yourself back 10 years.

When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.

Of all treasures of knowledge, the most vital is the knowledge of God, his existence, powers, love, and promises.

President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.