Nobody can fail to lose weight in the jungle, unless they've got a secret stash of pork pies somewhere.

Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when used properly.

I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.

It's not so much a thankless task, it's more a job with no thanks

I like challenges that test your ingenuity.

I am a big man, but I've allowed my condition to deteriorate by being overweight.

If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.

I loathe cheese, it makes me ill.

The waves of time wash us all clean.

I never have reservations about doing anything as long as I'm being paid.

I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business.

I would rather see a school produce a happy street cleaner than a neurotic scholar.

Am I higher or lower than she? It was always the vital question for Anna: who was superior, and how she could position herself so that she would be perceived as superior?

We all choke and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell. We all leak oil.

Composing was more difficult than writing things down.

Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life shooting blanks.

It's not hard work that wears you out, but the repression of your true personality, and I've found a way of working that does not demand that.

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

I overcome failure by doing it again and trying not to make the same mistake.

The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

A surprise trigonometry quiz that everyone in class fails? Must be in the Lord’s plan to give us challenges.