There will always be people who irritate you, inside and outside of any fanbase. That's not a fault of the fanbase, it's a fault of people, and we're all guilty.

I always tell my students that, in fiction, the opening is a clue to the work's DNA: not only what it is, but what it will become, where it will lead you.

What belongs to our independence and national sovereignty, we will never give up.

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed.

I think there will always be a possibility that God doesn't exist because He is infinitude and into that infinitude must come that possibility.

I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability.

Horses will never be my career. It's just a big passion of mine, and one that will always be there in the background, but football is my main passion and everyone knows that.

One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences.

We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will.

I will continue to entertain the great British public. Because that is what I love doing.

If I am elected president, keep an eye on the tarmac, because I'll be back, because Iowa in 2017 will not be fly-over country. It will be fly-to country.

You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that.

I love texting and DM'ing on Twitter. I will pretty much avoid talking on the phone at all costs.

I write stuff down. I have a chalkboard in the kitchen where I will scrawl stuff down if I have a faint outline of an idea. And I'll go into my office or whatever. But that goes from format to format.

If you're desperate enough for attention, any attention will make you feel better.

Even when I get on airplanes, very often, as I walk down the aisle, I notice a lot of people staring or whispering. I recognize the fact that yes, to a lot of people, I will always be that 14-year-old girl who was kidnapped and who was held captive.

Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.

And not only that but... when the station is completed, there will be an international crew made of astronauts coming from different cultural experiences, speaking different languages, but working together for a common goal.