You should choose organisations that are going to be flexible and supportive and recognise people are going through different stages in their careers and actually need different sorts of support.

You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

Often really what you need is someone who will believe in you, who will encourage you to believe in yourself.

You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

I'm a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.

When the will is strong enough, it is astounding what one's mind can do.

I read that heavy drinking is bad for your health. I decided I better stop reading.

Being a father is an everyday challenge. It goes on and on.

Hope, deceitful as it is, carries us through life agreeably enough.

Where there is hope, there is no despair.

I think it's too late. I think that there's been too much. This all started with the red line, walking away from it. The inability to arm the legitimate [Bashar] Assad opposition.

I've turned down shows offering large amounts of money.

The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.

Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.