Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

In the final analysis the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions no longer asking why something happened but asking how we will respond what we intend to do now that it happened.

Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.

Customers don't know what they want. There's plenty of good psychology research that shows that people are not able to accurately predict how they would behave in the future. So asking them 'Would you buy my product if it had these three features?' or 'How would you react if we changed our product this way?' is a waste of time. They don't know.

People always want to pin yesterday's news on you as opposed to asking you what you're going to do for the future what you're doing today.

It's funny because I did all of these interviews as soon as I had the baby and they were asking questions and I really didn't have an idea of anything because I was so blurry.

Oh all the time when Victoria Wood and I did our series. There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'

When a friend is in trouble don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

I used to eat because food tastes so good. I love food it's one of the best things on this planet. But I changed the way I was thinking. I started asking myself 'Hey am I eating because it tastes good? Or because I really need some more? Am I really still hungry?'