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

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.

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.

Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth.

Those who don't understand your silence, Will never understand your words

Those who say they would rather fight to the death than be raped are fools. I would rather be raped a thousand times. You do what you have to.

DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic

We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.

You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.

If we can't be free at least we can be cheap.

He that cannot abide a bad market, deserves not a good one

Go to forest to meet the wise green friends!

If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve.