By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential.

I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.

I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am going to express something or how we are going to make the visual metaphor.

It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress.

Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.

I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get repeated publicity.

Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.

Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.

A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left.

My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time.

I went to school with butterflies of fear every day for years - from primary school onwards - not just worried about being bullied by classmates, but by teachers.

The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.

Humans in this world live based on two things: one is on the basis of the Self and the other is on the basis of the egoism.

A beautiful lady with an evil heart is like a hundred dollar note cut in two with one piece missing

Your inner purpose is to awaken. It is as simple as that. You share that purpose with every other person on the planet - because it is the purpose of humanity.

Meeting and talking to the artist adds a special element to collecting contemporary art that makes the work an irreplaceable treasure rather than just another possession.

The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves.

I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.

All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love.

When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen.

The funniest thing a comedian can do is not do it.