I can never do better than 'Fawlty Towers,' whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

My hovercraft is full of eels.

The real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have a chance of experiencing something that is divine in nature. But in order to do that, we have to slice away at our egos and try to get them down to a manageable size, and then still work some practiced light meditation. So real religion is about reducing our egos, whereas all the churches are interested in is egotistical activities, like getting as many members and raising as much money and becoming as important and high-profile and influential as possible.