Life is precious and relationships are precious. I'm a great believer in family.

I'm a cup of tea in a world of lattes.

The truth is, I've been lucky. But just like the waltz, life has its own rhythm of rise and fall.

The thing with children is they're a bit like baking a fruitcake: you throw all the ingredients in but you never know how they're going to turn out.

Your money is like your willy, it only grows if you play with it

I always think of a show like a plant - a little pruning now and then keeps it healthy, but you shouldn't pull it out and chop the roots up.

You got to risk it if you want the biscuit.

It's never too early to panic.

I won't eat anything I can't spell or wouldn't tread in.

I really hate airport queues. I almost feel they should have cattle prods to hurry us up down the aisles. You can't even complain because they might stop you getting on to the flight.

I'm a technophobe. I can't crack the iPhone, and the extent of my multitasking is being able to talk while I make a drink.

To achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die.

Unconditional love is something people achieve once they’ve given themselves over completely to someone. Once they’ve decided that no matter what the other person does, they will always love them.

We cling to the most painful reminders of our youth, our memories or our injuries, perhaps so we can look back to our former selves, console them, and say: Keep going. I know how the story ends.

You're going to fall, but you got to stand.

There are three things you need to be a good writer: you need to read a lot, you need to write a lot, and you need a lot of feedback.

It's interesting that you don't always fall in love with someone that you're perfectly perfect for.

Everything in the universe is created from something, which in turn is created from nothing.

Go find something that you haven't done before. Don't do the same thing over and over again.

How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

I don't understand why it has to be either - or - either socialism or democracy. Why can't we combine things to get the best of each system?