I know that I am very fortunate. I have the support of my family and friends, I do a job I enjoy and I have Catherine.

Everybody thinks I drink beer but I actually like cider!

I have to say that I thought search-and-rescue duties over Snowdonia were physically and mentally demanding, but looking after a 3-week-old baby is up there!

There's been a lot of speculation about every single girl I'm with and it actually does quite irritate me after a while, more so because it's a complete pain for the girls.

I'm probably a bit of a cheeky grandson, like my brother as well. We both take the mickey a bit too much.

My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.

That which holds our attention determines our action.

As I learned from growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother.

I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people.

People say it's not ambitious, but it is actually quite ambitious wanting to help people.

He's a blockhead who wants a proof of what he cannot perceive. And he's a fool a fool who tries to make such a blockhead believe.

Where is Wood?" said Harry, suddenly realizing he wasn't there."Still in the showers, " said Fred. "We think he's trying to drown himself.

No one can write like Cheryl Strayed.

It seems like when you're in the race, they do everything they can to ignore you, so maybe being out of the race [I] might get a little more attention, we'll see.

When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is.

No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such limitation.

Forget [Le Corbusier ]. Forget Modernism. Forget yesterdays' tomorrow.

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work.

Sometimes it's the people you can't help who inspire you the most.

Silence is become his mother tongue.