Nice manners are the secret keys to the universe.

Change the world by being yourself.

We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work, it doesn't matter. But work is third.

Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.

Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.

There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else.

Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.

Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.

You never know what's around the corner unless you peek. Hold someone's hand while you do it. You will feel less scared.

I’d never dreamed anybody could love me the way he did. And even when he proved it to me time and again – I still could hardly believe it was true.

Male experience is what patriarchal culture uses to represent human experience, even when it is women who most often live it.

You are hiding something from me, I say and Sidney Grice shakes his head. 'No, ' he tells me quietly. 'I am hiding a great many things'.

You're a beautiful girl If you show the slightest interest in Alec, he'll want to go out with you. I know I would.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

I thought there was a chance right from the beginning.

The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance

You find the wrong boy, you ask for trouble. You find the right boy, you find love.

Ruby Wax has basically ruined my career. You'll see when you watch the programme. I get more intimate with Ruby than I've ever been with another woman.

Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.