I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something - that may not be very clear to me right now - but that I will do.
Human beings have to create hope. They have to. You have to have something you hold onto as being a possibility. Otherwise, why go on?
When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.
Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.
The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.
If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.
Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.
As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time.
There will always be something about two men in the ring - a mystique because it's pure man-to-man competition. Because of the history boxing has and the tradition it holds, boxing will always have a that mystique.
I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure time.
I think a fundamentalist is somebody who believes something unshakably and isn't going to change their mind.
I wouldn't change Buffy for anything and I wouldn't change the course in which she has evolved but it is nice to be able to do something that is a little different.
It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building the transcontinental railroad.
We also listen to PJ Harvey; a lot of driving music. You need something a little more relaxing in the car.
The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.
As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As long as it's something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles.
As a driver, you always want to be in the car getting as much experience as possible; especially when there's something new like different tyres.
Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
I can jump on to a kitchen worktop from standing, like Tigger. It was something my dad could do, and I copied it from him.
I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.
