“Never give up on something you really want. However impossible things seem, there's always a way.”

“If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are.”

“The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life.”

“You never know how things are going to turn out, however much you plan. But you already know that.”

“you can always find something you want.”

“You know, this always happens. Whenever I go away, I always think I'll come back to mountains of exciting posts, with parcels and telegrams and letters full of scintillating news - and I'm always disappointed. In fact, I really think someone should set up a company called holidaypost.com which you would pay to write you loads of exciting letters, just so you had something to look forward to when you got home.”

“There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.”