You wanna-I dunno-get coffee or something sometime?

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

If everyone wants to be somebody, I want to be somebody else

There's something quite special about a granny's house. Even if ten or twenty or thirty years go by, you never forget how it smells.

They leave to test the waters but fail to realize the waters are full of rapids.

Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.

As much as we all know that some things are easier said than done, we have to understand that if we don't say it, we may never do it.

The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life's transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.

You will regret many things in life but you will never regret being too kind or too fair.

We have to know before we can act.

Over the past 20 years, I have presented many science programmes on BBC1. But none is, I think, more socially important, or of more human interest, than this ongoing series of 'Child of Our Time.'