If you're going to be a wannabe, make sure you 'wannabe' something great. The most shocking thing about wannabes, is they largely want to be something irrelevant, vein, or just plain petty.

In the end, failing to plan and planning to fail aren't so different.

People talk about 'lives of significance'-as if there's an alternative. If you're not leading a life of significance, you're not living.

Wisdom doesn't teach fools for long.

It's possible to love without sacrificing-but who would notice? For love is demonstrated only through sacrifice-without it, love is invisible.

The more seriously you take yourself, the less others will.

I knew at that point I was more than capable of loving Jack - I was meant to.

I wondered if having conversations with your dog was less crazy than babbling to yourself when no one else was around. I guess it depended on whether or not the dog answered.

I haven't really got much get up and go. I can't believe I'm on the telly. I'm so lazy.

I'd had a vaguely Jewish upbringing, but no deep connection to faith.

My father loved me and he wanted to work with me and he didn't care what people would say.

It's very hard to describe your own style. And I'm young, so I'm still experimenting. But I think it's quite British and very much about individuality.

In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.

To hell with that. If a guy can pull a big erg, I can teach him how to row.

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