The thing is with me I look on the brighter side of everything.There's no point being pessimistic or being worried about too many things because frankly life's too short.

Everybody thinks I drink beer but I actually like cider!

I have to say that I thought search-and-rescue duties over Snowdonia were physically and mentally demanding, but looking after a 3-week-old baby is up there!

There's been a lot of speculation about every single girl I'm with and it actually does quite irritate me after a while, more so because it's a complete pain for the girls.

I'm probably a bit of a cheeky grandson, like my brother as well. We both take the mickey a bit too much.

My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.

That which holds our attention determines our action.

As I learned from growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother.

I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people.

People say it's not ambitious, but it is actually quite ambitious wanting to help people.

He's a blockhead who wants a proof of what he cannot perceive. And he's a fool a fool who tries to make such a blockhead believe.

Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.

For the commission to do a great building, I would have sold my soul like Faust. Now I had found my Mephistopheles. He seemed no less engaging than Goethe's.

I have not been so much pushed by winds as pulled forward by the force of my decisions.

I had such a reputation, and it was sad because I felt like it so didn't represent who I really was.

Inspiration thing is important, to teach the kids that JFK is not an airport, RFK's not a stadium, Martin Luther King ain't a street

I find that protein wakes up my brain and gets me ready for the rest of my day.

I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.

In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.

Clearly, love is love, between a man and a woman, a woman and a man, a woman and a woman and a man and a man.

If there is no dance, there is not music.