My personal opinion is that you can't be racist towards white people. You can be prejudiced about them, but being prejudiced isn't an illegal act, whereas being racist can be.

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion

You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.

The thing I thought about doing it was it's Comic Relief and you've got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you can't sing.

People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.

I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.

A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

There are two types of people in this world: one who opens a packet of biscuits, has one and puts the rest back in the cupboard, and one who eats the whole packet in one go.

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.

There are only two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.

Definition of money is the reward you get for solving people's problems.

Almost everyone in politics nowadays has at least one conflict of interest.

We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.

There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur

Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.

He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream, too.

Birds teach us something very important: To whatever height you rise, you will finally come down to the ground!

Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience