The waves of time wash us all clean.

Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when used properly.

I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.

It's not so much a thankless task, it's more a job with no thanks

Nobody can fail to lose weight in the jungle, unless they've got a secret stash of pork pies somewhere.

I like challenges that test your ingenuity.

I am a big man, but I've allowed my condition to deteriorate by being overweight.

If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.

I loathe cheese, it makes me ill.

I never have reservations about doing anything as long as I'm being paid.

I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business.

There is a depth to life which only comes from our connection to other people. However, we have to find it without becoming a prisoner.

A pat on the back can often motivate more than currency notes!

Regret drives us to repentance, and repentance leads us to God.

This is what a place like this does to you. It makes you put words in the beaks of chickens.

Where there is no alternative there is no problem.

The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.

All anger feels like righteous anger; sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not.

Whoever best serves the song is going to be served by the song

We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.

I'm learning a lot by reading teachers like Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chodron. They teach me because I feel like I have a responsibility to the communities that I speak to.