There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work with donkeys.

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

Time is the empty space that allows knowledge—let alone wisdom—to grow.

God is changing the guard indeed in the body of Christ worldwide. This I cannot be quiet about!

People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium.

I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.

Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.

If you let the world in, you open yourself up to the world. Even if the world doesn't know that you're there.

[Michael] Gove will be the underdog fighting for the underdog in this leadership race.

Border security is a safety issue.

I'd be the best mum ever. I would. I've got great training from my mum.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.