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.

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!

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.

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.

I know everything must be a lie, but I believe it anyway.

Am reading the life of Mozart and cannot help thinking that one's capacity for suffering is in direct proportion to one's greatness.

I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life.

You need strong leadership to effectuate change, and the easiest way is to keep everything status quo. And sometimes changes are necessary. If not, you build up too much potential energy.

People will continue to search for answers to universal and perplexing problems. But to find meaningful answers, one must first know what questions to ask.

I'm going to have fans and I'm going to have people who don't like everything I do. All I can really do is go to work and do my job.

We like to think that the fate of the Earth and the fate of human worlds are the same thing, but we're not as important as that.

When mind and action are separate, zen is lost. We keep the two in sync by paying attention.

New formalism is writing with language as flow, like the flow from a dam, running through a desert that has had no rain for decades.