Siri, what is the meaning of life? She answers: To think about questions like this. Huh. Good one.

There’s no such thing as fate. It’s just the word men give to decisions which have worked out badly.

Fate drives cruel bargains. We must always release one thing before we can grasp something else.

This is what progress does, you know. Each step into the future makes us ever so much grander and more demanding and thus ever so slightly less human.

Falling in love slowly is like awakening one morning to find that the sun has risen in the west.

Life is too short not to smile. Smile as much as you can.

No one has capacity to help for ever except God .

My vision for Scotland is one in which we fight together for the values we are care about: equality, fairness and social justice. Those values are the same whether you live in Dumfries or Carlisle.

I remember, in my senior year, one of my teachers taking me aside and saying: 'You look really tired.' This was when I was being a bad kid and she knew that something was wrong.

You can say 'Thanks,' and you can say 'Thanks a Million' - but any number in between?

I have no privacy anymore.

I had a cigarette for breakfast, just for beginners, Cried for my lunch, and sleep for dinner.

As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism.

Some of you expressed surprise that I showed up-so many emails to read!

Love breeds tolerance, tolerance breeds peace. ... Love cannot be indifferent. It does not know how.