This little ship you sent is more wonderful than the big one that takes me away from you.

When you consider all the stars I have managed, mere submarines make me smile.

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.

This little ship you sent is more wonderful than the big one that takes me away from you.

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

If you can command a lot of attention, that's what is valuable, and many in the commercial ecology would like to have a piece of that attention.

Previously, on Lock, Stock, I went to bed at two in the morning and woke up at five in the morning, and on this one I was known to nod off on the set occasionally.

The oil patch pays good. They're decent jobs paying between 50 and 70 thousand a year. Fracking has a big impact on the oil consumption in the United States.

The minute you alter your perception of yourself and your future both you and your future begin to change.

I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up.

The cause of depression and stress are negative thoughts.

How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.

I really believe that the more distractions and fixes I remove from my life, the better I'll feel about myself. The biggest of those is Depeche Mode. It's the one marriage that survived, but I'm not sure it works - for me, anyway. Jumping on a plane to go somewhere else and be told how wonderful I am doesn't feel good any more.

Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

To be fair to the Inquisition, they only used confessions extracted after the torture had ended, which let them claim that admissions had been freely given; the fact that the torture would have started again if they hadn't confessed was a minor detail.

I think it's my interaction with journalists that has pegged me more as political than my actual records, although they have obviously political aspects to them as well.

Everything is temporary. Well, except government programs.

Change is a process: future is a destination. People want a sense of hope, possibility and pride about Britain.

If it is in the interest of the Palestinian people to have a hudna, we'll have a hudna. If it isn't, we won't.

I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.

A wife is a gift bestowed upon man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

There are very few things I've done just twice in my life, 40 years apart, and one is to backpack on the Pacific Crest Trail across the California/Oregon border.

Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics Commission, we are going to need your strong support to get an even tougher Ethics Code passed this year.

There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means losing their fortunes.

The only real experiences I've had with therapists were the ones who were working with me and my family when my mother was ill.

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.

No minority should climb all over the majority.