Apart from anything else, I find boots are too hot except in wintry weather. At home I usually wear a sweater, shirt and slacks.

My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved.

I'm told leather drives men up the wall. I like wearing it because it because it feels nice.

I've travelled around the UK a lot recently and have discovered that I really like trains. If you're in the quiet carriage, nobody can get hold of you and you can relax.

South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated.

I hate everything about airports from getting there to taking off.

I'm very fond of Norfolk. My husband came from there and the kids love it. Devon is beautiful, too.

Most of the Bond girls have been bimbos. I have never been a bimbo.

I'm the slowest reader in the world, because I perform it all in my head.

No More Avengers! There's nothing new to get out of it - I want to go forward, not backward.

She was always tired, these days. She put on one of those smiles that wasn’t really a smile at all, and they went on.

You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.

If life takes you long way, take a shortcut!

The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.

Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.

I have a beautiful little Smith & Wesson, 9 millimeter, and it goes with me virtually everywhere.

That is the beauty of cancer, it tells you that your days are limited, that you could die at any point. It is that perspective that allows you to live a better life while you're here.

I believe that the mindset that allows you to spend your working life thanking and congratulating people rather than being unpleasant to them is the mainstay of good leadership.