The thing with children is they're a bit like baking a fruitcake: you throw all the ingredients in but you never know how they're going to turn out.

I'm a cup of tea in a world of lattes.

The truth is, I've been lucky. But just like the waltz, life has its own rhythm of rise and fall.

Your money is like your willy, it only grows if you play with it

I always think of a show like a plant - a little pruning now and then keeps it healthy, but you shouldn't pull it out and chop the roots up.

You got to risk it if you want the biscuit.

It's never too early to panic.

I won't eat anything I can't spell or wouldn't tread in.

I really hate airport queues. I almost feel they should have cattle prods to hurry us up down the aisles. You can't even complain because they might stop you getting on to the flight.

I'm a technophobe. I can't crack the iPhone, and the extent of my multitasking is being able to talk while I make a drink.

You have to speak your mind, but without being cruel.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea.

I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.

I tend to get a little quirkier and crazier with my lyrics and come from a different angle when I'm writing for myself.

What's the good thing about being an actor, you can do more things. Not just being a comedian, not going overboard but expressing myself within the confines of a film.

'T was good advice, and meant, my son, Be good.

He winked at her. She giggled. And I threw up a little in my mouth

Only the present moment contains life.

The two ingredients in success in basketball are playing hard and playing intelligently.

Had it pleas'd heaven To try me with affliction * * * I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience.