Glaswegian ebola patient moved to London's Royal Free Hospital. Not so independent when it matters most are we jocksville?

A name, for me, is a short way of working out what class that child comes from. Do I want my child to play with them?

Sending us Ebola bombs in the form of sweaty Glaswegians just isn't cricket.

Nothing makes my buttocks clench tighter and my teeth itch more than 'Full Time Mummy'. Full time mummy is not a job title. It is a biological status.

To call yourself 'plus size' is just a euphemism for being fat. Life is much easier when you're thinner. Big is not beautiful, of course a job comes down to how you look.

I never place limits on the potential success of my students. If they're going into acting, they're going to win the Oscar... If they're going into law, they're going to be chief justice.

A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion.

I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea! [Reputed to have been a remark made to the head of his department at Caltech.]

I have made no distinction between the circulation of goods and of money, because there really is none.

We can distance ourselves from the reality of what we did through storytelling.

Embrace the hell out of personal responsibility.

You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.

The kid who is scared is the one the bullies go after. I used to get beat up pretty badly.

Definitely giving it my heart and soul from my life as I see it. That whole album [My Brother] is like that, that's how I feel.

Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.