Liberating but hard to remember we're just bit-parts in the lives of people we know, who care very little for our secrets

Liberating but hard to remember we're just bit-parts in the lives of people we know, who care very little for our secrets

Each of us is leading a difficult life, and when we meet people we are seeing only a tiny part of the thinnest veneer of their complex, troubled existences. To practise anything other than kindness towards them, to treat them in any way save generously, is to quietly deny their humanity.

There are things in your life which you are in control of, and those you're not. You need to not care about those things which you're not in control of, and when you come to really understand that, you can go from being really upset about something to that lovely feeling of being a kid where everything is okay.

I would like a bit of me - that’s how I put my back out!

I’m a big fan of parrots - I think they’re fascinating creatures. Many of them live for longer than us humans and it's interesting to me the way they learn to mimic human voices even though they don't really comprehend what they're saying.

To impress people as much as we would wish, we would first need to successfully adopt each of their value systems