“My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.”

“Like millions of Scots, I've agonised over whether to go for independence or remain with the Union.”

“Scotland needs comedy more than ever. With the independence debate, finally after 300 years, reaching room temperature.”

“For such a small country, Britain packs in an amazing diversity of landscapes: coastline, lakes, mountains, rolling countryside, villages and great cities.”

“When I think back to my childhood, it's with a mixture of amusement and embarrassment. I was always forgetting things. My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sens...”

“So to recap: we may or may not be going to war with Iraq because Saddam may or may not have weapons of mass destruction, which he may or may not use, or pass to other terrorists groups with whom he...”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.”

“Back in the days when gladiators hacked away at each other, there was always the man who decided whether the defeated should live or die. The job is usually given to the Emperor in movies, but in f...”

“Pursuing fun is exhausting. Having fun is just fun. Much more relaxing just to do your work, don't you think? I mean if you enjoy it.”

“The belief that we are deficient and unworthy makes it difficult to trust that we are truly loved”

“The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.”

“Be still and know you are loved Feel the arms of the universeRocking you to its steady hum.”