Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home.

There's no place like home, there's no place like home

An exile from home splendour dazzles in vain,Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again;The birds singing gayly, that came at my call,Give me them, and that peace of mind dearer than all.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Sing, laugh and be merry because today you're alive.

If you don’t think about it, it’s right.

I feel that one of the best things a person can do for another is to create a job. So you do OK commercially, and then you try to make a difference of some sort.

Emotions were for those too weak to turn them off.

You mean he came to your school? The scandalous rodent-loaf!

Science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning.

I don't do the mirror thing; maybe once or twice when I first started out.

In my normal time, I like bacon sarnies, I smoke and I drink coffee. I do look after myself, but sometimes I allow myself to just let go a bit.

There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.