Whether you're religious or not, there is a real need for other people's religious positions to be treated with the upmost respect.

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.

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

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.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future.

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom... And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

The secret of my success over the 400m is that I run the first 200m as fast as I can. Then, for the second 200m, with God's help I run faster.

Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.

What we need is a generation of peace.

People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.

Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.

Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War.

We must take the profit out of war.

Comedians are thinkers. The best ones are akin to philosophers, in my opinion.