At 19, you know everything; by the time you're 40, you haven't got a clue.

I'd love to retire somewhere like Winchester, where you have one foot on the pavement but a sense of being in the country as well.

When you are in the eye of the storm, you are often not aware of the whiplash around you.

To go to the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In fact, the building is not that big.

I've often been the guy who doesn't get the girl.

I always try to look for the best in most places.

The press mainly want to destroy a program by revealing what's coming up. For some reason, soaps like doing that.

After World War II, the major estates really did collapse.

Everyone at some point in their lives feels excluded and misunderstood.

In Britain, the press want to kill a show by revealing what's coming up and spoiling the pleasure.

A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas.

Change your perception about things and the things you perceive changes.

Grief demands answers but one doesn't always get them.

We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war.

Oh, I wish I was young again when everything seemed so wonderful!

As I get older, I don't think the world is becoming that funny. Comedy is changing a bit.

Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.

I really love Natalie Portman; she's the real deal.

THE ART OF PEACE is the religion that is not a religion; it perfects and completes all religions.

And who knows which is which and who is who.

To resolve conflicts, excessive ambitions and one's own fears and aspirationis must be sacrificed.