I wonder whether being a scientists daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

I am a world expert on how to organise tasks in a senseless order, totally unrelated to priority, and thus create a massive panic leading up to an important deadline.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them.

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was Einstein.

I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front room with my family as the audience.

I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand our horizons beyond planet Earth if we are to have a long-term future.

Play to win, not "not to lose".

So I fight for a Father who I never loved, against a brother that I did. I defend an empire that never wanted me against an army that would have taken me in a heartbeat.

God gave you a gift of 86 400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you

The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.

Surgery is a complicated thing to talk about, but I guess it could also be a dangerous thing to play with if you're not very secure about what you're doing.

I always cry at weddings, they're beautiful, and I'm always moved.

Wise men change, fools stay the same.

I love playing a role where I think I'm right and then you learn you're not.

My family was scientifically inclined: My brother did turn into a neurophysiologist, and I almost became a scientist myself. I could have gone that way.

We need to help those we seek to serve, to know for themselves that God not only loves them, but He is ever mindful of them and of their needs.