My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.

I remember very clearly someone saying, 'Don't shake hands with the cactus,' and I thought, 'Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?' Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.

Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.

I'm a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.

Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.

Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I'm also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.

You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It's made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.

I keep myself amused and others confused

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

Everything’s different from us. That’s why everything exists.

Submitting seemed to me a lot like giving up. If God gave us the strength to bail- the gumption to try and save ourselves- isn't that what he wanted us to do?

Too often fear is fiction madly running amuck, all the while madly tracking ‘muck’ across the floor of fact.

You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth

I was thinking, there are 5 million people, and I am just one of those 5 million. In the build-up to the war you see children playing in the street, and you think, ah, I'm going to be okay.

The address 'Woman' was so respectful that it might be, and was, addressed to the queenliest.

The final heartbeat for the Christian is not the mysterious conclusion to a meaningless existence. It is, rather, the grand beginning to a life that will never end.

You are all so lucky to be living here. If I live in Manila I would definitely live in Azure.

If, at the end of the day, we need to raise taxes, we should raise taxes.

A small communication breakdown is enough for everyone to be working on slightly different things. And then you loose focus.