Scotland is about layering. The weather changes every 10 minutes.

Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you dont need to do anything to Shakespeare.

There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.

I'm very lucky. I had a great childhood.

It sounds almost unreal, but I was born and raised on old castlegrounds - Kenmure Castle.

I grew up in Scotland, and everyone wore Barbour. It's very practical, it's very outdoorsy. It's what the gamekeepers and the fishermen and the farmers would wear.

Im obsessed with the moon and space travel, so if I could incorporate that, Id love to go to space.

It's hard to make a book episodic.

I've always been into endurance sport, which I think is more about your mind pushing your body, which is definitely why that Bear Grylls book sung to me.

[Vice chairman of Barbour] Helen [Barbour] and I realized that I come from the same village that her ancestor John Barbour came from, who created Barbour. It just seemed like such a great connection.

Everyone is a lonely victim of life's complexity.

And they can’t understand, what hurts more— Missing the other person, or pretending not to.

Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you're not misleading yourself, science is the way to do it.

Never believe anything you think about yourself as a writer when you're not writing.

Do ballet and play football. Sing and dance. Laugh and cry.

In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things.

If I have to be objectified in my twenties to be taken seriously in my thirties, I'm doing something right.

Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer Charles Darwin; and the more ignorant he was the more cheerfully he undertook the task.

Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.

We must live in all kinds of days, both high days and low days, in simple dependence upon Christ as the branch on the vine. This is the supreme experience