Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.

I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.

By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential.

I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am going to express something or how we are going to make the visual metaphor.

It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress.

Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.

I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get repeated publicity.

Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.

A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left.

My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time.

I went to school with butterflies of fear every day for years - from primary school onwards - not just worried about being bullied by classmates, but by teachers.

To see happiness of others, that is what is our religion.

Wherever you see an empty life, or an empty page or an empty mind, add something good to it!

Today i want to talk to you, and you don't have time. Tomorrow you would desperately want to talk to me and I won't be around

In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.

Nobody can give you advice after you've been collecting for a while. If you don't enjoy making your own decisions, you're never going to be much of a collector anyway.

The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.

I am not going to be a star. I am going to be a legend.

There have been times I've been out, and my phone battery is at nine percent, and I was like, 'Time to go home.'

After eight years in government, Mr Blair has precious little to show for his ambitious plans to heal the divisions in society.

Al-Nahda is a movement; it is not just a small party.