I dont understand boys - just ask my husband.

The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.

Both Plockton and the Isle of Muck in north-west Scotland are incredibly beautiful. Sadly, Plockton has been discovered by tourists because it's where they shot Hamish Macbeth.

If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.

My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles.

My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it.

If there's one thing I know, it's this - everybody thinks somebody else is having a better life.

If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.

Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?

Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes you fat.

God's breath is like a fresh wind that renews us. Frail and weak as we are, we have hope. We find healing.

Life is better than death I believe if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new.

Television lets audiences deeply connect with characters.

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.

No one can blather on like a holy man with a trapped audience. Well, maybe a politician.

I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.

Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder.

Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is.

The country has gone sane and got back to horses.