[Vice chairman of Barbour] Helen [Barbour] and I realized that I come from the same village that her ancestor John Barbour came from, who created Barbour. It just seemed like such a great connection.

Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you dont need to do anything to Shakespeare.

There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.

I'm very lucky. I had a great childhood.

It sounds almost unreal, but I was born and raised on old castlegrounds - Kenmure Castle.

I grew up in Scotland, and everyone wore Barbour. It's very practical, it's very outdoorsy. It's what the gamekeepers and the fishermen and the farmers would wear.

Im obsessed with the moon and space travel, so if I could incorporate that, Id love to go to space.

It's hard to make a book episodic.

I've always been into endurance sport, which I think is more about your mind pushing your body, which is definitely why that Bear Grylls book sung to me.

Scotland is about layering. The weather changes every 10 minutes.

Belief and faith have nothing to do with each other. Beliefs are the manifestation of fear whereas faith comes from courage.

Furniture or gold can be taken away from you, but knowledge and a new language can easily be taken from one place to the other, and nobody can take them away from you.

She felt trapped, but she didn't have to. The world is wide open and ready, waiting for us to escape this bubble and join it.

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism

You don't need a special task. Every task is special.

Our hearts do not need logic. They can love and forgive and accept that which our minds cannot comprehend. Hearts understand in ways minds cannot.

A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.

When i was 12 all of my friends had girlfriends and i didn't, i felt lonely so i asked my mom to date me.

If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.

Forget the future. I'd worship someone who could do that.